Umberto Eco, The Island Of The Day Before

Quotes

• “All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are all around me, like...”
• “Thus we have on stage two men, each of whom knows nothing of what he believes the other knows, and to deceive each other...”
• “the first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most natural thing in the...”
• “But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the ...”
• “To survive, you must tell stories.”