People are never so completely and enthusiastically evil as when they act out of religious conviction.
~ Umberto Eco

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Fear prophets, Adso, and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.
~ Umberto Eco

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It was in this phoney guise that Donald Trump won the election in 2016; installed in Washington, he nationalised The Apprentice’s cut-throat scenario by stoking social and ideological feuds, then sat back to enjoy the mayhem that ensued.
~ Peter Conrad via The Guardian

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All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them.
~ Umberto Eco

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What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?
~ Umberto Eco

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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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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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