“I stretched out my arms and laid my palms on the earth, and, yes, the rocking persisted, the rocking of the island as it sailed through the sea and the night bearing into the future its freight of gulls and sparrows and fleas and apes and castaways, all unconscious now, save me. I fell asleep smiling.”
“As happiness recedes into dreams, the passion ended where it began: in sleepness.”
“Tomorrow begins from another dawn, when we will be fast asleep.”
“When you sleep, you turn into all kinds of things: you become stone, you become flowers.”
“Sleep disorders are commonly misdiagnosed as mental health disorders.”
“He could sleep in the ruins of cities lost for centuries.”