Italo Calvino Quotes

It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.

A day without newspapers is like walking around without your pants on.

People do not persist in their vices because they are not weary of them, but because they cannot leave them off. It is the nature of vice to leave us no resource but in itself.

Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity.

I wrote like a junkie. I had to have my daily fix.

I'm an addict for underwear.

I'm addicted to Altoids. I call them 'acting pills.'

Once you drink one glass, you want another.

I'm obsessed. I've always needed to know what's going on but now it's a must.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

Gollum is entirely based on the notion of addiction. The way that the ring pervades him, makes him craving, lustful, depletes him physically, psychologically and mentally.

You're an addiction...my obsession.

Obsessed? I don't know what the word means. I know there were times when I couldn't think of anything else. I used to stay in every weeknight in the hope that he might get free and call me. It felt like I had a disease I didn't want to get rid of. I suppose that's a definition of obsession, yes.

When you can stop you don't want to, and when you want to stop, you can't.

I can't go long without you either, Eva. You're an addiction...my obsession.

I was just taking out my trash and I had, like, 300 cans of Diet Coke. It was just like, 'How did that happen?' I don't even remember buying them. I also like Cinnamon Toast Crunch. My addictions are pretty much the only things I consume.

I play every day. It's like a habit for me now. I just, if I don't play, I kind of miss - something's off.

I’m addicted to your allure and I’m fiending for a cure.

He was my drug, and I had no desire to kick the habit.

The trouble with addiction is that you can park the car but you can never switch off the engine or stop yourself from hearing the revs.

To be perpetually longing and impatiently desirous of anything, so that a man cannot abstain from it, is to lose a man's liberty, and to become a servant of meat and drink, or smoke.

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.

I have the obsessiveness of someone who's a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. Except I never had the addiction.

I drink coffee. Without coffee, I probably couldn't write.