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

"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."

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

"Light in comparison with darkness is a void."

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