I think it is all a matter of love; the more you love a memo... - Vladimir Nabokov

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

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

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

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

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