"The days blur into one, and the backs of my eyes hum with things I've never done."

“We've got to stop focusing solely on the symptoms of crime, and start caring about the causes as well.”

“Boredom is the keynote of poverty ... it's dark brown sameness.”

“There are only three things you can do with a dollar: spend, loan, or own.”

“Dirk Nowitzki will be better than Larry Bird. I'm a legend killer.”

“Like one of any minority, I have experienced prejudice.”

“If you are vain it is vain to sign your pictures and vain not to sign them. If you are not vain it is not vain to sign them and not vain not to sign them.”

“What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?”

Source : Umberto Eco (2003). “Baudolino”, p.353, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“We all can be masters at our craft, but you have to make sacrifices that come along with making that decision.”