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

"The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book."

"Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth."

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

"Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece."

"Let all of life be an unfettered howl."