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

"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."

"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."

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

"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."