I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it.
Vladimir NabokovThe spiral is a spiritualized circle. In the spiral form, the circle, uncoiled, has ceased to be vicious; it has been set free.
Vladimir NabokovAll my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter.
Vladimir NabokovLoneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.
Vladimir Nabokov