"All of Nabokov's books are about tyranny, even Lolita. Perhaps Lolita most of all."

"Although everybody should know that I detest symbols and allegories (which is due partly to my old feud with Freudian…"

""Lolita, or the Confession of a White Widowed Male", such were the two titles under which the writer of the present n…"

"Its author's bizarre cognomen is his own invention; and, of course, this mask — through which two hypnotic eyes seem …"

"This commentator may be excused for repeating what he has stressed in his own books and lectures, namely that "offens…"

"Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three …"

"You have to be an artist and a madman, a creature of infinite melancholy, with a bubble of hot poison in your loins a…"

"My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident (picnic, lightning) when I was three, and, save for a pocket of wa…"

"There are two kinds of visual memory: one when you skillfully recreate an image in the laboratory of your mind, with …"

"For me a work of fiction exists only insofar as it affords me what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bliss."