Vladimir Nabokov

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

Some people, and I am one of them, hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm.

Caress the detail, the divine detail.

The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.

Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school.

I'm not too secure about my looks. They can always change. I was heavy and overweight as a teenager, so it's hard to be cocky or egotistical.