Vladimir Nabokov

“Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.”

“Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.”

“There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.”

“Genius is an African who dreams up snow.”

“I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.”

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

“A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.”