A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is o... - Vladimir Nabokov

"while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space, the poet feels everything that happens in one point of time."

"I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child."

"Lolita is famous, not I. I am an obscure, doubly obscure, novelist with an unpronounceable name."

"I mean, I have the feeling that something in my mind is poisoning everything else."

"Why did I hope we would be happy abroad? A change of environment is that traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and lungs, rely."