Umberto Eco

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

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.

After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

Grobanite makes me think of a type of harmless crustacean.