Vladimir Nabokov, (1899-1977), Russian-born American Novelist, Poet Quotes

Treading the soil of the moon, palpating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's stomach the separation from terra...these form the most romantic sensation an explorer has ever known...this is the only thing I can say about the matter. The utilitarian results do not interest me.

I confess, I do not believe in time.

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is. - Strong Opinions.

Treading the soil of the moon, palpating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's stomach the separation from terra... these form the most romantic sensation an explorer has ever known... this is the only thing I can say about the matter. The utilitarian results do not interest me.

Solitude is the playfield of Satan. - Pale Fire, 1962.

Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travelers, twice or many times older than they, reveal their true nature which is not human, but nymphic (that is, demoniac); and these chosen creatures I propose to designate as nymphets.

Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.

Solitude is the playfield of Satan.

Readers are not sheep, and not every pen tempts them.