The Antichrist can be born from piety itself, from excessive love of God or of the truth, as the heretic is born from the saint and the possessed fro… - Umberto Eco

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.

Each of us is sometimes a cretin, a fool, a moron, or a lunatic. A normal person is just a reasonable mix of these components, these four ideal types.

We've got to help each other, seeing as God doesn't help us. Do you see how great Jesus' idea was? Imagine how much it must have irritated God. Forget the devil, Jesus was the only true enemy of God, and he's the only friend us poor wretches have.

A library's ideal function is to be a little bit like a bouquiniste's stall, a place for trouvailles.