Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfin... - Vladimir Nabokov

"To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute."

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

"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."

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

"I think it is all a matter of love; the more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes"