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."

"Light in comparison with darkness is a void."

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

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

"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"