“Go to bed; tired is stupid.”

“Why would you clone people when you can go to bed with them and make a baby? C'mon, it's stupid.”

Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer

“I'll go sleep on the couch," James said. "No, you won't," Poppy said firmly. She flopped on the bed beside him. "You're dead tired. And I know I'm safe with you." James grinned without moving his arm. "Because I'm dead tired?”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

“I wonder why I don't go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip on hour more of sleep and live.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

“Obie was bored. Worse than bored. He was also tired. He went to bed tired and woke up tired. He found himself yawning constantly. Most of all, he was tired of Archie. Archie the bastard. The bastard that Obie alternately hated and admired.”

Robert Cormier book The Chocolate War

“Early to bed and early to rise," Mazer intoned, "makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

“Everybody wants to go to bed
with everybody else, they're
lined up for blocks, so I'll
go to bed with you. They won't
miss us.”

Richard Brautigan (1935–1984) American novelist, poet, and short story writer

“I go around slashing tire prices.”

Jay London (1966) American comedian

“I'm tired of waiting to die. Let's go out.”

Charles Bukowski book Hot Water Music

“Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.”

Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist