“I'll sleep when I'm dead.”
“What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on the top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you. You just slept the big sleep, not caring about the nastiness of how you died or where you fell.”
“Leave the lights on: you can sleep when you're dead...you can't read when you're dead.”
“Maybe when I'd dead, he thought. Maybe when I'm dead I'll get some goddamned sleep.”
“Some people sleep their lives away. But I also want to sleep death away. If I sleep long enough, maybe death will think I’m already dead and pass me by.”