For most of us, nighttime dreaming brings us closer to our identities and our power than any activity in the waking world.

I proclaim night more truthful than the day.

By night an atheist half believes a God.

After each night we are emptier: our mysteries and our griefs have leaked away into our dreams.

What hath night to do with sleep?

Each night’s new terror drives away the terror of the night before.

Dreams have always been my friend, full of information, full of warnings.

At night comes counsel to the wise.

Never greet a stranger in the night, for he may be a demon.

Living is an ailment that is relieved every sixteen hours by sleep. A palliative. Death is the cure.

I’ve dreamed enough to have a drink.

Night is torment. That is why people go to sleep. To avoid clear sight and torment.

Night affords the most convenient shade for works of darkness.