Air Quote by Christopher Hitchens

“I was near-delirious. Gazing up at the pillared skyline, I knew that I was surveying a tremendous work of man. Buying myself a drink…

— Christopher Hitchens

“I slept badly that night, my vivid dreams populated by ghosts. As much as it revived ailing spirits in day light, the fizzy energy…

— Pete Townshend

“For the rest, she grew used to the life that she was leading - used to the enormous sleepless nights, the cold, the dirt,…

— George Orwell

“There was a dense fog in my brain,impenetrable to any coherent thought,except the dull obsession of counting the minutes - an aching state of…

— Arthur Koestler

“The darkness behind my closed eyelids was like the cloud-covered sky, but the gray was somewhat deeper. Every few minutes, someone would come and…

— Haruki Murakami

“At other times I wake up from the half sleep I'd fallen into, and hazy images with poetical and unpredictable colours play out their…

— Fernando Pessoa

“I had no thought, that night—none, I am quite sure—of what was soon to happen to me. But I have always remembered since, that…

— Charles Dickens

“It also had extraordinary acoustics: in the hush of the small hours, a goods truck smashing into a pothole sounded like an explosion, and…

— Joseph O'Neill

“He was thinking of that time, the way one does on long journeys when rootlessness and boredom, lack of sleep or routine can summon…

— Ian McEwan

This sunlight linked me through the ages to that past consciousness.

— Anonymous

“That chair -shall I ever forget it? Where the shadows fell on the canvas upholstery, stripes of a deep but glowing indigo alternated with…

— Aldous Huxley

“I argued myself into thinking that physical experience is the only true reality. I didn't want to be told about this, nor did I…

— Paul Theroux