Quotes by : Italo Calvino

The things that the novel does not say are necessarily more numerous than those it does say and only....

A human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions, but....

what matters is not the enclosure of the work within a harmonious figure, but the centrifugal force produced....

It sometimes seems to me that a pestilence has struck the human race in its most distinctive faculty....

If the ancients had been able to see it as I see it now, Mr. Palomar thinks, they would have thought....

again I am torn between the necessity and the impossibility of answering.

In the shop window you have promptly identified the cover with the title you were looking for. Following....

Journeys to relive your past?' was the Khan's question at this point, a question which could also have....

Reading is solitude. One reads alone, even in another's presence.

What is more natural than that a solidity, a complicity, a bond should be established between Reader....