Memorable Quotes and quotations from Umberto EcoUmberto Eco Italian novelist & semiotician (1932 - )Umberto Eco - - I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. Umberto Eco - Travels in Hyperreality (Harcourt) - The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. Umberto Eco - Travels in Hyperreality - The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. Umberto Eco - on why he wrote the novel "The Name of the Rose." - I felt like poisoning a monk. |
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