“I've been able to sleep with my eyes open ever since I started watching baseball.”
“I watch baseball on TV like my cat watches the window. Somebody open the blinds so we can see better!”
“Perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything.”
“Ever since that happened to me, I haven't been able to give myself to anyone in this world.”
“Staring in the darkness, trying to sleep. My body was aching with tiredness. My limbs were numb. My sightless eyes were crazed with light/ I was dying of oblivion, but it wouldn't come. I didn't think I've ever sleep again.”
“I couldn't decide if the fact that Nathaniel had watched me when I was sleeping was creepy or sort of exciting. God, I hoped I hadn't been lying there with my mouth open and drooling.”