A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual. – Vladimir Nabokov
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. – Vladimir Nabokov

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual. – Vladimir Nabokov
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. – Vladimir Nabokov
A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past. – Vladimir Nabokov
You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style. – Vladimir Nabokov