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• Whenever anyone asks me what book I would take with me to a desert island, I reply, "The phone book
  with all those characters, I could invent an infinite number of stories. -- Umberto Eco...
• I felt like poisoning a monk. -- Umberto Eco on why he wrote the novel The Name of the Rose.
• Life is cruel ... it keeps me in stitches.
• The Beauty of the Universe consists not only of unity in variety but also of variety in unity.
  -- Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose...
• I am here. Wish you were fine!
• Oh everything's cruel according to you. Keeping him chained us in the backyard is cruel.
  Pulling his tail is cruel. Yelling in his ears is cruel....
• I am Flatulus of Borg: Here (and smell) me ROAR!
• And you don't resent it? The VISOR or being blind? Since they are both part of me and I really like who I am, why should I resent them?
  -- Scholar and Geordi, "Loud as a Whisper", stardate 42477.2...
• Bender: Life is hilariously cruel.