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Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

and finally there was the sleepless nightwhen i decided to explore and fightthe foul, the inadmissible abyss, devoting all my twisted life to thisone task. today i'm sixty-one. waxwingsare berry-pecking. a cicada sings.

Vladimir Nabokov

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