Ambitious, Absorbing, And Poignantly Moving.

Of Course, Both [oscar] Wilde & [vladimir] Nabokov Believe In Many Things, And These Things Emerge In Their Writing Clearly - For Wilde, The Folly Of Humankind And The (romantic) Grandeur Of The Heroic, Lone Individual (not Unlike Wilde Himself); For Nabokov, The Possibility Of A Kind Of Transcendence Through A Great, Prevailing, Superior Sort Of Love (especially In Ada, The Most Self-congratulatory Of Novels.)

Yet I Will Make You All Love Me And I Will Punish Myself To Spite Your Love.

Writing Is A Consequence Of Having Been 'haunted' By Material. Why This Is, No One Knows.

Only When Men Are Connected To Large, Universal Goals Are They Really Happy-and One Result Of Their Happiness Is A Rush Of Creative Activity.

"because There Has Been No One To Stop Me" Has Been One Of The Principles Of My Life.