Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.

Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.

And the rest is rust and stardust.

Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.

Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars.

Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.

The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.

There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.

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

Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.

I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world’s muteness.

One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.

We...advance toward a state of society in which not only each man but every impulse in each man claims carte blanche.

I have met many sacred souls in reading.

Wrong thoughts pattern your life towards it for we live our thoughts.

I can feel myself slipping away. Slowly leaving who and what I am behind. - Dylan

You have to learn the difference between a man’s looks, and how fine he shoots. They’ve never been one and the same.

Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes.

It's hard to believe that in the greatest democracy in the world, we need legislation to prevent the government from writing and paying for the news.

I never could be a partisan leader - a man of one idea.

Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee.