Melancholy Is Sadness That Has Taken On

Novelists Tell That Piece Of Truth Hidden At The Bottom Of Every Lie.

In Love, As In Gluttony, Pleasure Is A Matter Of The Utmost Precision.

Your First Book Is The Only One That Matters. Perhaps A Writer Should Write Only That One. That Is The One Moment When You Make The Big Leap; The Opportunity To Express Yourself Is Offered That Once, And You Untie The Knot Within You Then Or Never Again.

You Are About To Begin Reading Italo Calvino's New Novel, If On A Winter's Night A Traveler.

Arriving At Each New City, The Traveler Finds Again A Past Of His That He Did Not Know He Had: The Foreignness Of What You No Longer Are Or No Longer Possess Lies In Wait For You In Foreign, Unpossessed Places.