More quotes by Vladimir Nabokov

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