„Lolita is famous, not I. I am an obscure, doubly obscure, novelist with an unpronounceable name.“

— Vladimir Nabokov
„I am very conscious of the fact that our feelings and strivings are often contradictory and obscure and that they cannot be expressed in easy and simple formulas.“
— Albert Einstein
„I am probably responsible for the odd fact that people don't seem to name their daughters Lolita any more. I have heard of young female poodles being given that name since 1956, but of no human beings.“
— Vladimir Nabokov
„When the situation is obscure, attack.“
— Heinz Guderian
„Obscurity is never a virtue.“
— Roald Dahl