John B.

“I'm accustomed to thinking of literature as a search for knowledge; in order to move onto existential terrain I need to consider it in relation to anthropology, ethnology, and mythology.”
― Italo Calvino, Six Memos for the Next Millennium

“And many students can't go a week without a savory cheese tart they call a 'pizza'....”
― Rupert Holmes, Murder Your Employer

“Because we all make mistakes. Relentlessly. And that is nothing to be feared”
― Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors

“Losers, like autodidacts, always know much more than winners. If you want to win, you need to know just one thing and not to waste your time on anything else: the pleasures of erudition are reserved for losers. The more a person knows, the more things have gone wrong.”
― Umberto Eco, Numero Zero: An Acclaimed Political Thriller Unraveling Mussolini's Conspiracy, Media Hoaxes, and Italian History