“China is a sleeping giant; let him sleep, for if he wakes, he will shake the World.”
“Let the sleeping dogs lie, but rise up! You sleeping giants.”
“In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.”
“He was going to die. He could see the headlines now. Naked Runt Suffocated by a Sleeping Giant.”
“A novelist's characters must be with him as he lies down to sleep, and as he wakes from his dreams. He must learn to hate them and to love them.”
“But you can wake a man only if he is really asleep. No effort that you make will produce any effect upon him if he is merely pretending sleep.”