More quotes by Vladimir Nabokov

"Lolita is famous, not I. I am an obscure, doubly obscure, novelist with an unpronounceable name."
"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."
"I think it is all a matter of love; the more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes"
"Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece."