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