But now 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
A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams. – Umberto Eco
I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they arent trying to teach us. – Umberto Eco
Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than anothers fear. – Umberto Eco
By the way, movies are like sporting events in that youre as good as the movie youre in. You can sit in a room for 20 years and go do a movie and you can just kill in it and you move to the head of the line again. By the same token, you can do five movies a year and if theyre dreck, its nothing. – Albert Brooks