Umberto Eco

Showing quotations 1 to 3 of 3 total 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 EcoI felt like poisoning a monk. Umberto Eco, on why he wrote the novel "The Name of the Rose."The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. Umberto Eco, Travels in Hyperreality (Harcourt)

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