“The fame of his likes circulates briskly but soon grows heavy and stale”

“Two silent time zones had now merged to form the standard time of one man's fate”

“Do not be angry with the rain”

“I mean, I have the feeling that something in my mind is poisoning everything else.”

“For some reason, I kept seeing itit trembled and silkily glowed on my damp retinaa radiant child of twelve, sitting on a threshold, "pinging" pebbles at an empty can.”

“No, it is not my sense of the immorality of the Humbert Humbert-Lolita relationship that is strong; it is Humbert's sense. He cares, I do not. I do not give a damn for public morals, in America or ...”