Umberto Eco

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.

Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

I'll be writing essays long after I've stopped writing fiction. There is this unusually broad range in the non-fiction, but if you look at what I'm capable of as a novelist, I'm more limited.

If my forgeries looked as bad as the CBS documents, it would have been 'Catch Me In Two Days'.

A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what gets my adrenaline going.