We establish a connection with the unknown through the act of giving something and, paradoxically, the act of destroying something. That is what is b…

- Roberto Calasso

Education is paradoxical in that it is largely composed of things that cannot be learned

- Roberto Calasso

Stories never live alone; They are the branches of a family that we have to trace back, and forward.

- Roberto Calasso

The author is the successor of the saint, everyone respects the author.

- Roberto Calasso

Whatever else it might be, the divine is certainly the thing that imposes with maximum intensity the sensation of being alive.

- Roberto Calasso

The monster does not need the hero. it is the hero who needs him for his very existence. When the hero confronts the monster, he has yet neither powe…

- Roberto Calasso

Myth is never a single story. It is always a tree with many branches.

- Roberto Calasso

The gods are fugitive guests of literature.

- Roberto Calasso

Wendy Doniger has spent decades collecting not only myths from ancient texts but stories of all kinds from novels, movies, newspapers about an old my…

- Roberto Calasso