Italo Calvino

"Imagination is memory without fidelity."

"All these possible lives are within us; we choose one and live as if it were the only one."

"The world is a combination of possible worlds."

"Writing is the art of creating worlds within the world."

"Cities exist to be read like texts."

"The invisible is that which we see without knowing we are seeing."

"Literature exists to remind us of what we have forgotten."

"Every city contains the seed of all possible cities."

"The method of progress is to vary the material conditions of existence."

"What we seek in the cities is hidden."

"A city is more than a place; it is a story we tell ourselves."

"The book is a thing of memory and oblivion."

"Speed and slowness are not opposites; they are different ways of knowing."

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in seeing with new eyes."

"Cities are alive in the descriptions we make of them."

"There is no heresy in asserting a fact."

"The bridge is built before the chasm is crossed."

"Sensuality is not just about touch, but about all the senses."

"The essence of the city is that it is a place of memory."

"You must remember the past to imagine the future."

"The city is an open book written in the language of architecture."

"What cannot be said can only be shown."

"Memory is made of layers, like a city."

"The art of storytelling is the art of making the invisible visible."

"Literature offers the freedom to be multiple selves."

"To write is to fight the silence."

"The city conceals as much as it reveals."

"Nothing is ever truly finished; we simply stop writing it."

"The map is not the territory, but a way of knowing it."

"In the beginning there is always a word."