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.

Color is a very critical thing. I've found that architects don't like colors. Engineers too. And so somebody has to stand in. Because this is the finish of it. It is the emotional part of a structure.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.

Last year, in the year 2008, it just became normal to watch great American institutions crumble, almost dissolve like sand.