Quotes from Vladimir Nabokov's books, and about them
Pale Fire on Timon of Athens: “All I have with me is a tiny vest pocket edition of Timon of Athens—in Zembla! ... something I might use for a title. And the find is “pale fire.””
Pale Fire on Shakespeare's Sonnets: “his first work (the translation of Shakespeare's Sonnets) was the outcome of a bet with a fellow officer”
Pale Fire on The Tempest: “He exchanged his frogged uniform for a scholar's dressing gown and tackled The Tempest.”
Pale Fire on A Midsummer Night's Dream: “anybody can flip through a Midsummer-Night's Dream or Romeo and Juliet, or, perhaps, the Sonnets and take his pick”
Pale Fire on Romeo and Juliet: “anybody can flip through a Midsummer-Night's Dream or Romeo and Juliet”
Pale Fire on My Last Duchess: “Lines 671-672: The Untamed Seahorse. See Browning's My Last Duchess.”