"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 …"

"I also know that the shock of Annabel's death consolidated the frustration of that nightmare summer, made of it a per…"

"I have reserved for the conclusion of my "Annabel" phase the account of our unsuccessful first tryst. One night, she …"

"All at once we were madly, clumsily, shamelessly, agonizingly in love with each other; hopelessly, I should add, beca…"

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