Matthew White

“If I correctly understand the sense of this succinct observation, our poet suggests here that human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire

“Solitude is the playfield of Satan.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire

“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of humankind.”
― Mahatma Ghandi

“do what only a true artist can do ... pounce upon the forgotten butterfly of revelation”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire