The Name of the Rose

The Abbot: "We found the body after a hailstorm, horribly mutilated, dashed against a rock at the foot of the tower, under a window which was, uh, how shall I say this? I trust..."
William of Baskerville: "Which was found closed."
The Abbot: "Somebody told you?"
William of Baskerville: "Had it been found open, you would not have spoken of spiritual unease... you would have concluded that he'd fallen."
The Abbot: "Brother William, the window cannot be opened! Nor was the glass shattered, nor is there any access to the roof above."

"Oh, you turnip, Adso."

"She's beautiful, is she not? When the female, by nature so perverse, becomes sublime by holiness, then she can be the noblest vehicle of grace. [Latin translation] Beautiful are the breasts that protrude just a little."
[showing a statue of the Virgin Mary to Adso]

"We are very fortunate to have such snowy ground here. It is often the parchment on which the criminal unwittingly writes his autograph. Now, what do you read from these footprints here?"

"In the twelve years I have lived here, I have done nothing but stuff my belly, shag my wick and squeeze the hungry peasants for tithes!"

"My dear Adso, we must not allow ourselves to be influenced by irrational rumors of the Antichrist, hmm? Let us instead exercise our brains and try to solve this tantalizing conundrum."

William: "I too was an Inquisitor, but in the early days, when the Inquisition strove to guide, not to punish. And once I had to preside at a trial of a man whose only crime was to have translated a Greek book that conflicted with the Holy Scriptures. Bernardo Gui wanted him condemned as a heretic; I... acquitted the man. Then Bernardo Gui accused me of heresy, for having defended him. I appealed to the Pope. I... I was put in prison, tortured, and... and I recanted."
Adso: "What happened then?"
William: "The man was burned at the stake and I am still alive."

"The rats love parchment even more than scholars do. Let's follow him!"