My Generation Knew Pretty Well What Happened

The Good Of A Book Lies In Its Being Read. A Book Is Made Up Of Signs That Speak Of Other Signs, Which In Their Turn Speak Of Things. Without An Eye To Read Them, A Book Contains Signs That Produce No Concepts; Therefore It Is Dumb.

Nothing Gives A Fearful Man More Courage Than Another's Fear.

They [the Templars] Had Read Avicenna, And They Were Not Ignorant, Like The Europeans. How Could You Live Alongside A Tolerant, Mystical, Libertine Culture For Two Centuries Without Succumbing To Its Allure, Particularly When You Compared It To Western Culture, Which Was Crude, Vulgar, Barbaric, And Germanic?

My Father Was An Accountant And His Father Was A Typographer.

If Somebody Writes A Book And Doesn't Care For The Survival Of That Book, He's An Imbecile.