“The cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia.”

“You are always born under the wrong sign, and to live in this world properly you have to rewrite your own horoscope day by day.”

“The Internet gives us everything and forces us to filter it not by the workings of culture, but with our own brains. This risks creating six billion separate encyclopedias, which would prevent any common understanding whatsoever.”

“It takes a little time, but the pleasures of cooking begin before the pleasures of the palate, and preparing means anticipating ...”

“He had prepared his death much earlier, in his imagination, unaware that his imagination, more creative than he, was planning the reality of that death.”

“Fear prophets, Adso, and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.”

“And so I fell devoutly asleep and slept a long time, because young people seem to need sleep more than the old, who have already slept so much and are preparing to sleep for all eternity.”