I mean, I have the feeling that something in my mind is pois... - Vladimir Nabokov

"Light in comparison with darkness is a void."

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

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