Alive, Alive, Oh!

“When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That’s when I feel beautiful.”

“I’ve always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed.”

“The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.”

“It appears that every man’s insomnia is as different from his neighbours as are their daytime hopes and aspirations.”

“What hath night to do with sleep?”

“I am strongly of the opinion that, after the age of twenty-one, a man ought not to be out of bed and awake at four in the morning. The hour breeds thought. At twenty-one, life being all future, it may be examined with impunity. But, at thirty, having become an uncomfortable mixture of future and past, it is a thing to be looked at only when the sun is high and the world full of warmth and optimism.”

“Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.”

“Life is something to do when you can’t get to sleep.”

“I love sleep.
My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?”

“I’m almost convinced that I’m never awake.”