When I try to analyze my own cravings, motives, actions and so forth, I surrender to a sort of retrospective imagination which feeds the analytic faculty with boundless alternatives and which causes each visualized route to fork and re-fork without end in the maddeningly complex prospect of my past.
Vladimir NabokovResemblances are the shadows of differences. Different people see different similarities and similar differences.
Vladimir NabokovNostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.
Vladimir NabokovWhy do those people guess so much and shave so little, and are so disdainful of hearing aids?
Vladimir NabokovThe social or economic structure of the ideal state is of little concern to me. My desires are modest. Portraits of the head of the government should not exceed a postage stamp in size. No torture and no executions. No music, except coming through earphones, or played in theaters. Freedom of speech, freedom of thought, freedom of art.
Vladimir Nabokov