My own ultraviolet darling. " Lolita

Do not be awed by giant predecessors. Be ill-tempered with their renown. Point out flaws. Frighten interviewers from Time. Appear in Playboy. Sell to the movies.

The tiny madman in his padded cell.

There is no science without fancy and no art without fact.

No writer in a free country should be expected to bother about the exact demarcation between the sensuous and the sensual; this is preposterous; I can only admire but cannot emulate the accuracy of judgment of those who pose the fair young mammals photographed in magazines where the general neckline is just low enough to provoke a past master's chuckle and just high enough not to make a postmaster frown.

By God, I could make myself bring her that economically halved grapefruit, that sugarless breakfast.

Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.