There was no plot... and I discovered it by mistake. - Umberto Eco

The basic principle [of hermetic drift semiotics] is not only that the similar can be known through the similar but also that from similarity to similarity everything can be connected with everything else, so that everything can be in turn either the expression or the content of any other thing.

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

"Poor boy," the libertine then said, "he builds machines to count the infinite, and we have terrified him with the eternal silence of too many infinities. Voila, the end of a fine vocation."