Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

One of the things that may appeal to teenagers is that vampires never change - they're frozen in that age.

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

To find relief in what has been, we must make ourselves eternal.

The Ramones own the fountain of youth. Experiencing us is like having the fountain of youth.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Movies make you immortal and ageless.

Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.

I'm never going to grow up. Staying young is what it is all about for me.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.

A lot of things you see as a child remain with you... you spend a lot of your life trying to recapture the experience.

Also, when you think about a show that you used to watch as a kid or as a teenager, you look at it through sort of rose colored glasses when you remember it.

I remember how much - when I was a small boy I was taken to see a version of 'Peter Pan.' I detested it. I mean, the sentimental idea that anybody would want to remain a boy.

I'm going through life's cycles at an alarmingly fast pace, but my persona has a Peter Pan quality: he doesn't age.

I get to be a kid forever.

I know I'm grown, but there's a part of me who will eternally be six years old.

Rock 'n' roll is not unlike love. You find it oddly strangely comforting that no matter how old you get, when it comes to matters of the heart, you're always 15 inside.

Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies.

When I was young, life seemed long and endless to me.

I get a chance to observe the moon now, I still see those same images I saw when I was six, and it pleases me to know that that part of my childhood is still embedded in me.

I don't grow up. In me is the small child of my early days.

It's a certain kind of immortality, because those Disney films do go on and on and on.

Pity wraps the student of the past in an ambrosial cloud, and washes his limbs with eternal youth.

... And the boy whose hair remained the color of lemons forever.