I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author,... - Vladimir Nabokov

"The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book."

"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."

"The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book."

"Light in comparison with darkness is a void."

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