“The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.”
“All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.”
“The waking have one world in common; sleepers have each a private world of his own.”
“We were the only three people awake in a world half asleep and the air felt heavy with maybe.”
“I always had this little terror, this feeling that the whole world was asleep, that around this whole, huge planet, I was the only ne left awake in the world.”
“I fall in love with someone about twice a week, but I'm starting to think that’s a common problem with writers, that they have a dangerous excess of love that they give away to near strangers or turn inward on their private little worlds.”