#insomnia

"Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?""I give.""You get someone who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there's a dog."

"Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping."

"I'm an insomniac, my mind works the night shift."

"It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids."

"I've crossed some kind of invisible line. I feel as if I've come to a place I never thought I'd have to come to. And I don't know how I got here. It's a strange place. It's a place where a little harmless dreaming and then some sleepy, early-morning talk has led me into considerations of death and annihilation."