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

"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible"

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

"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."

"Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one."

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