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

“It's when you walk around the apartment in my boxers when you don't know I'm awake. And then that grin, when you do know I'm awake. You spend so much time in the morning making sure every hair is in place. But I have to tell you: I like it most like this, haphazard, sleep-strewn, disarrayed.”

“I feel like I'm sleeping when I'm awake, and really living when I'm asleep.”

“Otherwise I'll fall apart. I'm going to fall apart. I am falling apart.”

“When you stood between somebody you loved and death, it was hard to be awake and it was hard to sleep.”

“I was full of a hot, powerful sadness and would have loved to burst into the comfort of tears, but tried hard not to, remembering something my Guru once said -- that you should never give yourself a chance to fall apart because, when you do, it becomes a tendency and it happens over and over again. You must practice staying strong, instead.”