More Quotes by Italo Calvino
I am a Saturn who dreams of being a Mercury, and everything I write reflects these two impulses.
What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?
What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space.
You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.
Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.
The universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say, "I read, therefore it writes.
If the spark doesn't come, that's a pity; but we do not read the classics out of duty or respect, but only out of love.
Work stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the building site. The sky is filled with stars. "There is the blueprint," they say.
Life, thought the naked man, was a hell, with rare moments recalling some ancient paradise.
The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.
