Use unlikely materials. Who would choose Pnin as hero, but how did we live before Pnin?

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.

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.

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.

Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting.

We change with time by how we view the future and reflect the past

Must not understanding lie open unto wisdom as the pyramids lie open to the stars? (6:2)

As Christmas draws near, let the words resonate — not just within your heart & mind, but Soul.

If you're doing it right... you should feel while you're doing it that you're revealing a little too much of yourself.

You should approach technological things in a nostalgic way.

Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is once past, there is no recalling it.

Sing a song of seasons; something bright in all, flowers in the summer, fires in the fall.

How can a you hit and think at the same time?