Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.

A toothache will cost a battle, a drizzle cancel an insurrection.

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

I always call him Lewis Carroll Carroll because he was the first Humbert Humbert.

Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

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