More quotes by Vladimir Nabokov

"Light in comparison with darkness is a void."
"I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child."
"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."
"Lolita is famous, not I. I am an obscure, doubly obscure, novelist with an unpronounceable name."