“I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays ...” — Umberto Eco Quote

“I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.”

“The thought that all experience will be lost at the moment of my death makes me feel pain and fear... What a waste, decades spent building up experience, only to throw it all away... We remedy this sadness by working. For example, by writing, painting, or building cities.”

“It is clear that when you write a story that takes place in the past, you try to show what really happened in those times. But you are always moved by the suspicion that you are also showing something about our contemporary world.”

“People have this capacity within them to set the world straight.”

“I would love to be able to serve in office in some capacity with Romney as president.”

“Every individual can improve from day to day, from year to year, and have greater capacity to do things as the years come and the years go.”