"I'd sleep under a Vermeer."

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"There would be nights when I would wake up and couldn't get back to sleep. So I would go downstairs and write. The staff had a pool going on how many pages of typing I would bring in here in the morning."

Harold H. Greene, American Judge

Sleep,

"We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep."

Olive Schreiner, South African Writer

Sleep, Will, Southafrican

"I find her anecdotes more efficacious than sheep-counting, rain on a tin roof, or alanol tablets.... you will find me and Morpheus, off in a corner, necking."

Dorothy Parker, American Poet

Sleep, Humor, Story, Relaxation

"But let them sleep, Lord, and me mourn a space."

John Donne, British Poet

Sleep, Space

"That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

Sleep,

"The poet knows himself only on the condition that things resound in him, and that in him, at a single awakening, they and he come forth together out of sleep."

Jacques Maritain, French Philosopher

Sleep,

"The mind is in a sad state when Sleep, the all-involving, cannot confine her spectres within the dim region of her sway, but suffers them to break forth, affrighting this actual life with secrets that perchance belong to a deeper one."

Nathaniel Hawthorne, American Novelist

Sleep, Mind, Fear, Imagination

"A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep."

W. H. Auden, English Poet

Sleep,

"Thou driftest gently down the tides of sleep."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American Poet

Sleep, Peace, Calm, Dream

"I'll sleep when I'm dead."

Warren Zevon, American Musician

Sleep,

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"I'm a con artist in that I'm an actor. I make people believe something is real when they know perfectly well it isn't."

People, Artist

"The Broadway audience is made up of a greater percentage of tourists now. There's not nearly as much variety and danger and challenge in what's being offered."

Being, Challenge, Danger, Now

"I find I have to walk a little faster in public these days, but it's very easy to remember when nobody had any idea who I was."

Idea, Public

"It's a very tough time for the playwright. Broadway has become almost a musical comedy theme park with all these long-running shows."

Time, Comedy

"Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug."

Time,

"If it's well written and well directed and you've got good actors to work with, acting is easy. But making sure all the ducks are in a row is the hard part. It's very rare."

Work, Acting, Actors

"Up there with my awards, I have a great big statue of Groucho Marx, just to put everything in perspective."

Awards, Perspective

"Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving."

People, Care

"There's nothing like spending an evening with an audience every night."

Evening, Night, Nothing

"I consider myself a very lucky actor that, approaching 60, I'm still employed and employable."

Actor,