Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.
Vladimir NabokovAlthough we read with our minds, the seat of artistic delight is between the shoulder blades. That little shiver behind is quite certainly the highest form of emotion that humanity has attained when evolving pure art and pure science. Let us worship the spine and its tingle.
Vladimir NabokovUse unlikely materials. Who would choose Pnin as hero, but how did we live before Pnin?
Vladimir NabokovWe loved each other with a premature love, marked by a fierceness that so often destroys adult lives.
Vladimir Nabokov