Ayn-rand Quote by Corey Robin

“Romantic love is the most selfish of all emotions.”

— Ellen Kenner

“To sum it all up, the [Ayn] Rand belief system looks like this: 1. Facts are facts: things can be absolutely right or absolutely…

— Matt Taibbi

“Indifference to me, is the epitome of all evil.”

— Elie Wiesel

“You want to know what's wrong with the world?" Dad paused. "It's this alienation that permeates every aspect of humanity.”

— Mark David Henderson

“True love is egoism à duex - egoism for two.”

— Ellen Kenner

“You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style." —Vladimir Nabokov”

— Leslie Langtry

At Cornell University, my professor of European literature, Vladimir Nabokov, changed the way I read and the way I write. Words could paint pictures,…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

The Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov once said: In a Democracy, portraits of a nation's leader should never exceed the size of a postage stamp.…

— Vladimir Sorokin

One book that has meant much to my writing is W.G. Sebald's The Emigrants. He uses a photograph of Vladimir Nabokov hunting butterflies in…

— Samantha Hunt

I read Lorrie Moore and Marilynne Robinson and Jhumpa Lahiri and Richard Ford, John Updike, Anton Chekhov, Vladimir Nabokov - all of whom I…

— Michelle Zauner

“Briefly (Vladimir Nabokov) caught the (Superman) fever too, composing a poem, now lost, on the the Man of Steel's wedding night.”

— Stacy Schiff

After so many attempts to mount a musical version of 'Lolita,' the project was well and truly dead by the summer of 1971. Chief…

— Sarah Weinman