I always call him Lewis Carroll Carroll, because he was the first Humbert Humbert.

I am probably responsible for the odd fact that people don't seem to name their daughters Lolita any more. I have heard of young female poodles being given that name since 1956, but of no human beings.

Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.

Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.

A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.

All colors made me happy: even gray. My eyes were such that literally they Took photographs.

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.