“Struggling to be brief I become obscure.”
“When the work is done, and one's name is becoming distinguished, to withdraw into obscurity is the way of Heaven.”
“Out of obscurity I came, to obscurity I can easily return. ”
“Strength comes from struggle. When you learn to see your struggles as opportunities to become stronger, better, wiser, then your thinking shifts from "I can't do this" to "I must do this.”
“Lolita is famous, not I. I am an obscure, doubly obscure, novelist with an unpronounceable name.”
“Once innocence--an all too-brief state of being, if such a one exists--encounters experience, it is transformed. If that transformation is understood, it becomes knowledge. And if that knowledge is employed, then it becomes wisdom.”