“The more I know, the less I sleep.”

— Rene Balcer

Det. Alexandra Eames in Law & Order: Criminal Intent.
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screenwriter, producer and director 1954

Sheri S. Tepper (1929–2016) American fiction writer

Source: Gibbon's Decline & Fall (1996), Chapter 6 (p. 114)

“Sleep is still difficult I sleep for three or four hours a day. Usually sometime in the afternoon. I walk in the cold, keep myself numb. I cry less, and less." (James Frey, pg.88)”

James Frey My Friend Leonard

Source: My Friend Leonard

“As a purely mathematical fact, people who sleep less live more.”

Amy Chua book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

Source: Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

“I don't know how I could sleep at night, not knowing I was surrounded by a thousand other sleeping, dreaming souls. - pg 120, Jem to Tessa & Will”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“I think that it would be less difficult to live eternally than to be deprived of sleep throughout life.”

Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) Russian dramatist, author and physician

Letter to A.S. Suvorin (December 9, 1890)
Letters

“I don't know if I can't sleep because I am trying to recall the objects, or whether I struggle to recall them because I can't sleep.”

Herta Müller book The Hunger Angel

Source: The Hunger Angel (2012), p. 26

“The couch was for sleep at the end of exhausting days. I confided in her less often. Perhaps that is the fate of all marriages.”

Nick Drake (poet) (1961) British writer

Ch 8
The Rahotep series, Book 3: Egypt: The Book of Chaos (2011)
Context: A little distance had opened between us, almost unnoticed, rarely acknowledged. We made love infrequently. The couch was for sleep at the end of exhausting days. I confided in her less often. Perhaps that is the fate of all marriages.