Lolita is famous, not I. I am an obscure, doubly obscure, no... - Vladimir Nabokov

"I think it is all a matter of love; the more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes"

"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"

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

"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."

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