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Interview with Nabokov http://lib.ru/NABOKOW/Inter06.txt_with-big-pictures.html conducted on September 25, 27, 28, 29, 1966, at Montreux, Switzerland and published in Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature, vol. VIII, no. 2, spring 1967. <br class="br">Source: Strong Opinions

“I see again my schoolroom in Vyra, the blue roses of the wallpaper, the open window.… Everything is as it should be, nothing will ever change, nobody will ever die.”

Vladimir Nabokov book Speak, Memory

Source: Speak, Memory

“Occasionally, in the middle of a conversation her name would be mentioned, and she would run down the steps of a chance sentence, without turning her head.”

Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor

“You lose your immortality when you lose your memory.”

Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor

Source: Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

“Most of the dandelions had changed from suns into moons.”

Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor

“Why did I hope we would be happy abroad? A change of environment is that traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and lungs, rely.”

Vladimir Nabokov book Lolita

Variant: A change of environment is the traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and lungs, rely.
Source: Lolita

“Solitude is the playfield of Satan.”

Vladimir Nabokov book Pale Fire

Source: Pale Fire (1962)

“My little cup brims with tiddles.”

Vladimir Nabokov book Lolita

Source: Lolita

“Beauty plus pity-that is the closest we can get to a definition of art. Where there is beauty there is pity for the simple reason that beauty must die: beauty always dies, the manner dies with the matter, the world dies with the individual.”

Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor

“To begin with, let us take the following motto… Literature is Love. Now we can continue.”

Vladimir Nabokov book Despair

Source: Despair