Antonio Tabucchi

I don't have any doubts either about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Perhaps some more should be added to the list, but I don't have the slightest doubt about human rights.

Eco sees the intellectual as an organizer of culture, someone who can run a magazine or a museum. An administrator, in fact. I think this is a melancholy situation for an intellectual.

I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions.

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.