Light in comparison with darkness is a void. - Vladimir Nabokov

"Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece."

"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"

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

"Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth."

"I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child."