Umberto Eco

"I love the smell of book ink in the morning."

"In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner."

"We live for books."

"The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it."

"If you want to use television to teach somebody, you must first teachthem how to use television."

"Translation is the art of failure."