“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”

“When I'm not drinkin' baby, you are on my mind. When I'm not sleeping baby, when I'm not sleeping mama, when I'm not sleeping, you know you'll find me cryin”

“When you stood between somebody you loved and death, it was hard to be awake and it was hard to sleep.”

“I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.”

“It's strange, but when it comes right down to it I never do fall apart--even when I'm sure I will.”

“You know what it’s like when you’re trying to fall asleep and it only makes you more wide awake?”

“We sleep when we fall. We only sleep when we can’t move anymore. That’s juvenile. But it means everything. It’s the illusion of progress. Staying awake isn’t progress. The illusion is enough.”

“Just leave me alone. I'm not myself. I'm falling apart, and I don't want you here.”

“I may be a sleeping politician. But one should know that a sleeping politician is always awake about national politics. I am not like politicians who sleep on national issues though they may be awake physically”

“When I sleep, I dream of you, and when I wake, I long to hold you in my arms. If anything, our time apart has only made me more certain that I want to spend my nights by your side, and my days with your heart.”