Vladimir Nabokov. (№ 451333)

From my youth - I left Russia at the age of 19 - my political views remain strict and unchanged, like an old gray rock. They are classical, almost to the point of banality. Freedom of speech, freedom of art. The social or economic structure of an ideal state interests me little. My desires are very modest. Portraits of the head of state should not exceed the size of a postage stamp. No torture, no executions.