More quotes by 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."