• My loathings are simple. stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. My pleasures are the most intense known to man: writing and butterfly hunting.

    Vladimir Nabokov: My loathings are simple. stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. My pleasures are the most intense known to man: writing and butterfly hunting.
    Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1973). “Strong opinions”, McGraw-Hill Companies