We loved each other with a premature love, marked by a fierceness that so often destroys adult lives.
Vladimir NabokovThus, in pornographic novels, action has to be limited to the copulation of clichรฉs.
Vladimir NabokovThe days of my youth, as I look back on them, seem to fly away from me in a flurry of pale repetitive scraps like those morning snow storms of used tissue paper that a train passenger sees whirling in the wake of the observation car.
Vladimir NabokovMy God died young. Theolatry i found Degrading, and its premises, unsound. No free man needs God; but was I free?
Vladimir NabokovI still dwelled deep in my elected paradise--a paradise whose skies were the color of hell-flames--but still a paradise.
Vladimir NabokovFreudism and all it has tainted with its grotesque implications and methods, appear to me to be one of the vilest deceits practiced by people on themselves and on others. I reject it utterly, along with a few other medieval items still adored by the ignorant, the conventional, or the very sick.
Vladimir Nabokov