You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.

The lives of individuals of the human race form a constant plot, in which every attempt to isolate one piece of living that has a meaning separate from the rest-for example, the meeting of two people, which will become decisive for both-must bear in mind that each of the two brings with himself a texture of events, environments, other people, and that from the meeting, in turn, other stories will be derived which will break off from their common story.

The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand

Very often the effort men put into activities that seem completely useless turns out to be extremely important in ways no one could foresee. Play has always been the mainspring of culture.

The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.

It is only through the confining act of writing that the immensity of the nonwritten becomes legible

The line between the reality that is photographed because it seems beautiful to us and the reality that seems beautiful because it has been photographed is very narrow.