My confidence in the future of literature consists in the knowledge that there are things that only literature can give us, by means specific to it.
Italo CalvinoEverything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's womb.
Italo CalvinoThe more one was lost in unfamiliar quarters of distant cities, the more one understood the other cities he had crossed to arrive there.
Italo CalvinoA person's life consists of a collection of events, the last of which could also change the meaning of the whole, not because it counts more than the previous ones but because once they are included in a life, events are arranged in an order that is not chronological but, rather, corresponds to an inner architecture.
Italo Calvino