Italo Calvino Quotes
When you're young, all evolution lies before you, every road is open to you, and at the same time you can enjoy the fact of being there on the rock, flat mollusk-pulp, damp and happy.
the cemetery is the home of those who are not here, come in.
We'll make an army in the trees and bring the earth and the people on it to their senses.
although science interests me just because of its efforts to escape from anthropomorphic knowledge, I am nonetheless convinced that our imagination cannot be anything but anthropomorphic.
...And meanwhile the Galaxy ran through space and left behind those signs old and new and I still hadn't found mine.
The difference between the true and the false is only a prejudice of ours.
With the smell of beer I try to get the smell of death off me. And only the smell of death will get the smell of beer off you, like all the drinkers whose graves I have to dig.
again I am torn between the necessity and the impossibility of answering.
Every morning I tell myself, 'Today has to be productive' - and then something happens that prevents me from writing.
Man is simply the best chance we know of that matter has had of providing itself with information about itself.