Vladimir Nabokov

Caress the detail, the divine detail.

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.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

Wikileaks in its essence is a publisher, pure and simple. They were very much in the same position as 'The New York Times' and 'The Guardian.'