“Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. ”
“I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land--every color, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike--all snored in the same language.”
“My own eyes try to sleep, but they don't. They stay wide awake as time snarls forward and silence drops down, like measured thought.”
“Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.”
“Abel snores pornographically, like a prince sleeping off an orgy.”
“Creativity is like a snoring husband, it won't let you sleep.”