“No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.”

“I like sleeping. (after a pause) You were conceived in this bed.”

“When I sleep I sleep and do not dream because it is as well that I am what I seem when I am in my bed and dream.”

“Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.”

“Do you often sleep tied to the bed?”

“I slept with this girl, and in the morning I asked her if she wanted breakfast in bed. She said one pig in the blanket was enough.”

“Friends I have had both old and young,
And ale we drank and songs we sung:
Enough you know when this is said,
That, one and all, they died in bed.
In bed they died and I’ll not go
Where all my friends have perished so.”

“I have consistently loved books that I've read when I've been sick in bed.”

“I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn't sleep.”

“Being sent to bed is a terrible command to all children, because it means the most public possible humiliation in front of adults, the confession that they bear the stigma of childhood, of being small and having a child's need for sleep.”