It is necessary to meditate early, and often, on the art of dying to succeed later in doing it properly just once.
~ Umberto Eco
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Author Archives: Jasper John MacKay
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If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
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Shave a gorilla and it would be almost impossible, at twenty paces, to distinguish him from a heavyweight champion of the world. Skin a chimpanzee, and it would take an autopsy to prove he was not a theologian.
~ H. L. Mencken
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A picture speaks 1000 words
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The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line. The objection to it is not that it is predominantly painful, but that it is lacking in sense.
~ H. L. Mencken
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A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations.
~ Umberto Eco
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Dearer to me than a host of base truths is the illusion that exalts.
~ Aleksandr Pushkin
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For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
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Someone said that patriotism is the last refuge of cowards; those without moral principles usually wrap a flag around themselves, and those bastards always talk about the purity of race.
~ Umberto Eco
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