Vladimir Nabokov
“Satire is a lesson; parody is a game.”
“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”
“The more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.”
“I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.”
“Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.”
“You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.”
“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.”
“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.”