All religions are based on obsolete terminology.

Time is rhythm: the insect rhythm of a warm humid night, brain ripple, breathing, the drum in my temple—these are our faithful timekeepers; and reason corrects the feverish beat.

Those Eggheadsareterrible Philistines. A realgood head is not oval but round.

while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space, the poet feels everything that happens in one point of time.

Play! Invent the world! Invent reality!

Humbert was perfectly capable of intercourse with Eve, but it was Lilith he longed for.

I am not, and never was, and never could have been, a brutal scoundrel.