I did invent the idea of using lucid dreaming to treat sleep disorders, but I was influenced by many real-life researchers - from forefathers like Freud and Jung to Stephen Laberge and Rosalind Cartwright, who explore lucid dreaming and parasomnias. — Chloe Benjamin Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in the tension between knowledge and mystery, between science and religion, and the various ways we cope with the unknown.… — Chloe Benjamin Copy Share Image
“Klara has always known she’s meant to be a bridge: between reality and illusion, the present and the past, this world and the next.… — Chloe Benjamin Copy Share Image
“So, this is how it started: as a secret, a challenge, a fire escape they used to dodge the hulking mass of their mother,… — Chloe Benjamin Copy Share Image
I did invent the idea of using lucid dreaming to treat sleep disorders, but I was influenced by many real-life researchers - from forefathers… — Chloe Benjamin Copy Share Image
I think much of my own quest in life is to figure out how best to cope with my own uncertainties. — Chloe Benjamin Copy Share Image
I think readers either love or hate nonlinear storytelling, and it's true that it can be more difficult, both to write and to read. — Chloe Benjamin Copy Share Image
“In New York, he would live for them, but in San Francisco, he could live for himself. And though he does not like to… — Chloe Benjamin Copy Share Image
“Is there such a thing as too much pleasure? When Simon imagines the bathhouses, he thinks of a carnival of gluttony, an underworld so… — Chloe Benjamin Copy Share Image
“He believes in bad choices; he believes in bad luck. And yet the memory of the woman on Hester Street is like a miniscule… — Chloe Benjamin Copy Share Image
“No vices?’ ‘No vices.’ ‘Except men,’ Simon says. A tree branch waves in front of the living room window, blocking the sun, and Robert’s… — Chloe Benjamin Copy Share Image
My mom is Episcopalian; my dad is ancestrally Jewish but personally atheist. After their divorce, however, my dad married a Jewish spiritual director, and… — Chloe Benjamin Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated by dreams - they seem like such intriguing evidence of the brain's obsession with narrative as a form of sense-making.… — Chloe Benjamin Copy Share Image
“Simon still feels high, remembering how it felt to dance with those beautiful, sculpted men, how it felt to be adored. For a moment,… — Chloe Benjamin Copy Share Image
My favorite writer is Alice Munro. It's simply amazing how well she captures entire lifetimes in a single short story. — Chloe Benjamin Copy Share Image
