“Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: you have to learn the rhythm of respiration, acquire the pace; otherwise you stop right away.”
— Umberto Eco, Postscript to The Name of the Rose
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More
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"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More
