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

"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"

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

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

"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."

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