"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music." ― Vladimir Nabokov Topic(s): Music More From Vladimir Nabokov "Genius is an African who dreams up snow." "Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much." "It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail." More In Music "Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder."― John Ruskin "It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing."― Norman Cousins "Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable."― Grace Slick