More quotes by Vladimir Nabokov

"I mean, I have the feeling that something in my mind is poisoning everything else."
"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."
"Light in comparison with darkness is a void."
"A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual."
"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."