“I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.”
“If the Creator should take the line that I am born to work and not to sleep, I would agree that I am indeed born to work but I would also make the unanswerable point that I cannot work unless I also rest.”
“I am too sick to be out of bed, too crazy to sleep, and am surrounded by horrors.”
“In view of the fact that I surround myself with numbskulls now, I shall die among numbskulls, and on my deathbed shall be surrounded by numbskulls who will not understand what I am saying ... Whom am I sleeping with these days ? Franz Kafka.”
“When I am near the end of a book, I have to sleep in the same room with it.”
“I am Envy...I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.”