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

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

"A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual."

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

"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."