Umberto Eco

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
Umberto Eco - Travels in Hyperreality (Harcourt)
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
Umberto Eco - Travels in Hyperreality
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
Umberto Eco - on why he wrote the novel "The Name of the Rose."
I felt like poisoning a monk.

- Umberto Eco