Eco sees the intellectual as an organizer of culture, someone who can run a magazine or a museum. An administrator, in fact. I think this is a melanc…

- Antonio Tabucchi

Rather than regret for what I have written, I feel regret for what I shall never be able to read.

- Antonio Tabucchi

Xenophobia manifests itself especially against civilizations and cultures that are weak because they lack economic resources, means of subsistence or…

- Antonio Tabucchi

personally I don't trust literature that soothes people's consciences.

- Antonio Tabucchi

Philosophy appears to concern itself only with the truth, but perhaps expresses only fantasies, while literature appears to concern itself only with …

- Antonio Tabucchi

I don't go for people who lead full and satisfying lives.

- Antonio Tabucchi

There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about.

- Antonio Tabucchi

I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions.

- Antonio Tabucchi

I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst mass…

- Antonio Tabucchi