Every morning I tell myself, 'Today has to be productive' - and then something happens that prevents me from writing. -Italo Calvino Morning
What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts. -Italo Calvino Romantic
Man is simply the best chance we know of that matter has had of providing itself with information about itself. -Italo Calvino Chance
Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents. -Italo Calvino Travel
