“ I have often noticed that we are inclined to endow our friends with the stability of type that literary characters acquire in the reader's mind. No matter how many times we reopen 'King Lear,' never s… Vladimir Nabokov
“ Good by-aye!" she chanted, my American sweet immortal dead love; for she is dead and immortal if you are reading this. Vladimir Nabokov
“ I could not kill , of course, as some have thought. You see, I loved her. It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight. Vladimir Nabokov
“ I mean, I have the feeling that something in my mind is poisoning everything else. Vladimir Nabokov
“ Briefly (Vladimir Nabokov) caught the (Superman) fever too, composing a poem, now lost, on the the Man of Steel's wedding night. Stacy Schiff
“ One last word,' I said in my horrible careful English, 'are you quite, quite sure that—well, not tomorrow, of course, and not after tomorrow, but—well—some day, any day, you will not come to live with… Vladimir Nabokov
“ He was afraid of touching his own wrist. He never attempted to sleep on his left side, even in those dismal hours of the night when the insomniac longs for a third side after trying the two he has. Vladimir Nabokov
“ For some reason, I kept seeing it—it trembled and silkily glowed on my damp retina—a radiant child of twelve, sitting on a threshold, pinging pebbles at an empty can. Vladimir Nabokov
