Badly paraphrasing here, but the Nabokov quote that always makes me laugh, is the one where after a reporter asked him what he thought of other novelists of his day and he said something like, “I see Nabokov and then I see not even the shadow of a shadow of Nabokov.” Lol. A titan of a writer as well as a titan of an egomaniac possibly. But has, you know, Nabokov, lol.