More From Umberto Eco
- "The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it."
- "The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else."
- "There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past."
More In Food
- "You know, out-of-touch liberals like Barack Obama say they want a strong economy, but in everything they do, they show they don’t like business very much. But the economy, of course, is simply the product of all the businesses of the nation added together. So it’s a bit like saying you like an omelet, but you don’t like eggs."― Mitt Romney
- "Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite."― Quintilian
- "If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their attitude towards the City, as they call it – London, the people of the south."― Martin C. Smith