Italo Calvino Life Quotations

I do not understand how you can associate abortion with an idea of hedonism or the good life.

I'm afraid I don't think I really have a life on which something can be written.

I would very much like to be one of those writers who have something really clear in their head to say, and throughout their life they promote this idea in their works.

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

...Life is nothing but trading smells.