Banks Introduced The Installment Plan. The Disappearance

[nabokov's] Language Is Made Visible . . . Like A Veil Or Transparent Curtain. You Cannot Help Seeing The Curtain As You Peek Into The Intimate Rooms Behind.

Lovers Are Not Snails; They Don't Have To Protrude From Their Shells And Meet Each Other Halfway. Meet Me Within Your Own Self.

I Do Like To Live In Other People's Homes. I Enjoy Being A Guest. I Am An Inexpensive Guest. When One Lives In Another's Home He Can Enter Into The Psychic Kingdom Of That Person.

I Write For A Certain Sphere Of Readers In The United States Who On Average Watch Seven And A Half Hours Of Multichannel Television Per Day.

Going Around Under An Umbrella Interferes With One's Looking Up At The Sky.