“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance, the only thing it cannot be is moderately important.”
“When a thing is new, people say: ‘It is not true.’ Later, when its truth becomes obvious, they say: ‘It is not important.’ Finally, when its importance cannot be denied, they say: ‘Anyway, it is not new.”
“Poshlust, Nabokov explains, "is not only the obviously trashy but mainly the falsely important, the falsely beautiful, the falsely clever, the falsely attractive.”
“It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.”
“True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.”
“I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see”