It [Foucault's Pendulum] can be very comforting for people of my generation, who ate disappointment for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

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.

Any fact becomes important when it's connected to another.

How clear everything becomes when you look from the darkness of a dungeon.

You are always born under the wrong sign, and to live in this world properly you have to rewrite your own horoscope day by day.

Not bad, not bad at all, " Diotallevi said. "To arrive at the truth through the painstaking reconstruction of a false text.

From shit, thus, I extract pure Shinola

…the more things you know, or pretend to know, the more powerful you are. It doesn’t matter if things are true. What counts, remember, is to possess a secret.

It’s quite possible that mortality is simply the result of poor education.

The Templars' mental confusion makes them indecipherable. That's why so many people venerate them.

It is not that men become too intelligent for God, ' says the Apologist, 'but rather they become too arrogant for intelligence.

Anyone who has actually been that sad can tell you that there's nothing beautiful or literary or mysterious about depression.

Two Immeasurable Things: The healing power of love and the destructive power of hate.

But emotions were, indeed, wild horses and they demanded to be heard. Brida let them run free for a while until they grew tired

When you visualize the recent past, do you see it as being somewhere over on the left?

Lionel Messi is the best player ever.

The kindness I have longest remembered has been of this sort, the sort unsaid; so far behind the speaker's lips that almost it already lay in my heart. It did not have far to go to be communicated.

Half a loaf is better than no bread.

I kind of like the position of being the fair-haired savior of my mother

Besides, going on tour and playing songs and arranging things, going to practice, it's all I know to be productive.