My books are about losers, about people who've lost their way and are engaged in a search.

I prefer insomnia to anaesthesia.

I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history.

It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection.

I live quietly at home among my family and friends.

But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance.

People with lots of doubts sometimes find life more oppressive and exhausting than others, but they're more energetic - they aren't robots.

But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don't have to be a genius to reach certain conclusions.

There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about.

Eco sees the intellectual as an organizer of culture, someone who can run a magazine or a museum. An administrator, in fact. I think this is a melancholy situation for an intellectual.

Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.

Everybody potentially can be great. It is not only some few people who could be great.

Underwater madness slipping into a haze, drowning and choking in repugnant nostalgic thoughts.

There is no limit of what you can or don't do! as the word itself gives you the strength to survive called friendship..

I believe that we should only read those books that bite and sting us. If a book does not rouse us with a blow then why read it?

Some girls barely speak, but always askin' for a dollar.

Kazemi has to understand that nobody is going to tell him he has to go back to Iran if he misses a shot.

Don't send a poet to London.

Holiness does not consist in doing uncommon things, but in doing every thing with purity of heart.

On his multi-player injury substitutions against Western Samoa-It was like the Falklands crisis. I was counting them in and counting them out.

I'm proud of the two adjectives, superficial and frivolous.