The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with t... - 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."

"Lolita is famous, not I. I am an obscure, doubly obscure, novelist with an unpronounceable name."

"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."

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

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