Top 117 Quotes by Umberto Eco

The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.

You die, but most of what you have accumulated will not be lost; you are leaving a message in a bottle.

It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.

I was a fervent Catholic, and I belonged to the national organizations, even becoming one of the national leaders, until the age of 21, 22.

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.

When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment.

Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am.

Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.

I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.

My father was an accountant and his father was a typographer.