There is only one school of literature - that of talent.
Vladimir Nabokov

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.
Vladimir Nabokov

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.
Vladimir Nabokov

You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.
Vladimir Nabokov

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
Vladimir Nabokov

Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives.
Vladimir Nabokov

It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.
Vladimir Nabokov