while the scientist sees everything that happens in one poin... - 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."

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

"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."

"Let all of life be an unfettered howl."

"I think it is all a matter of love; the more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes"