Speak, Memory discussion

“Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.”

Vladimir Nabokov

I'm not sure Nabokov is the author of that quote… It is repeated everywhere on the web, but I can not locate the origin of that quote… Sorry.

"The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the parental abyss with more calm than the one he is heading for (at some forty-five hundred heartbeats an hour)."