A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual, and only the individual reader is important to me.
Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith Mohler, 1994.
-- Vladimir Nabokov, (Apr 23 1899-1977), Russian-U. S. novelist; He was the foremost of the post-1917 immigrant authors; his works include Lolita, 1955.