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

"Let all of life be an unfettered howl."

"Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one."

"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."

"Why did I hope we would be happy abroad? A change of environment is that traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and lungs, rely."

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