Vladimir Nabokov

Genius is an African who dreams up snow…

Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order…

A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the…

To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of…

I confess, I do not believe in time…

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an…

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to…

It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but…

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music…

A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist…

Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something…

Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words…