“It was like being asleep when you were awake and awake when you were asleep. I'd pinch myself, figuratively speaking - I had to keep pinching myself. Then I'd wake up kind of in reverse; I'd go back to the nightmare I had to live in. And everything would be clear and reasonable.”
“The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred millions to a poetic or divine life. To be awake is to be alive.”
“I know the difference between being awake and being asleep when im awake..when im asleep not so much”
“but I have no mind for business and considered staying awake to be enough of an accomplishment.”
“He smiled back. “I’m not awake enough to be a bossy dick yet.”