My Father Was An Accountant And His

Not Long Ago, If You Wanted To Seize Political Power In A Country You Had Merely To Control The Army And The Police. Today It Is Only In The Most Backward Countries That Fascist Generals, In Carrying Out A Coup D'état, Still Use Tanks. If A Country Has Reached A High Degree Of Industrialization The Whole Scene Changes.... Today A Country Belongs To The Person Who Controls Communications.

Semiotics Is In Principle The Discipline Studying Everything Which Can Be Used In Order To Lie. If Something Cannot Be Used To Tell A Lie, Conversely It Cannot Be Used To Tell The Truth: It Cannot In Fact Be Used "to Tell" At All.

All Poets Write Bad Poetry. Bad Poets Publish Them, Good Poets Burn Them.

The Good Of A Book Lies In Its Being Read.

Homer's Work Hits Again And Again On The Topos Of The Inexpressible. People Will Always Do That.