“Every hour that passes, another hundredweight of sand is poured in through a tiny hole in Landsman's soul. After his eyes are closed, what happens is never quite sleep, and the thoughts that plague him, though atrocious, are never quite dreams.”

“Never quit on your one and only dream !!!”

“I close my eyes, hoping to slip into the same dream again, but then that never happens, does it?”

“They say that dogs may dream, and when Topsy was old, his feet would move in his sleep. With his eyes closed he would often make a noise that sounded quite human, as if greeting someone in his dreams. At first it seemed that he believed Sara would return, but as the years went by I understood that his loyalty asked for no reward, and that love comes in unexpected forms. His wish was small, as hers had been -- merely to be beside her. As for me, I already knew I would never get what I wanted.”

“This is what happens when you live in dreams, he thought: you dream this and you dream that and you sleep right through your life.”

“I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.”