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
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. – Italo Calvino
Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst. – Italo Calvino
What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following ones nose, taking shortcuts. – Italo Calvino
Something like Without a Paddle does really well at the box office and Im like, Oh, here we go. In Without a Paddle Im the romantic lead – great! A comedy and thats what America wants. Then it did nothing for me and I went into kind-of a work abyss. I just didnt get another shot. – Matthew Lillard