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

"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."

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

"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."