Thursday, June 10, 2004

I don't think in any language. I think in images. I don't believe that people think in languages. They don't move their lips when they think. It is only a certain type of illiterate person who moves his lips as he reads or ruminates. No, I think in images, and now and then a Russian phrase or an English phrase will form with the foam of the brainwave, but that's about all. BBC interview with Vladimir Nabokov, 1962 [via McSweeney's Quarterly] 10:35:47 PM