I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst.

Quote by Vladimir Nabokov

Topics: Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

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

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

A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.

A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.

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

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

I confess, I do not believe in time.

I confess, I do not believe in time.

There is only one school of literature - that of talent.

There is only one school of literature - that of talent.

The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.

The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.

Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.

Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.

To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of...

To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of...

Treading the soil of the moon, palpitating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of...

Treading the soil of the moon, palpitating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of...

Caress the detail, the divine detail.

Caress the detail, the divine detail.

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

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

There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal...

There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal...

Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be...

Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be...

The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.

The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.

The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in...

The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in...

I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like...

I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like...

Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity.

Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity.

Solitude is the play field of Satan

Solitude is the play field of Satan

Solitude is the most fertile land that yields the bumper crop of mind's creativity

Solitude is the most fertile land that yields the bumper crop of mind's creativity

I am afraid to show you who I really am, because if I show you...

I am afraid to show you who I really am, because if I show you...