Quote by Umberto Eco
"I prefer reading to talking. And since talk is the only polite form of interruption, silence gathers all the glory of conversation."
More from Umberto Eco
"The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else."
"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."
"We are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."
"Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie."