"Thinking very often resembles napping, but the intent is different. --Stephanie Plum"
— Janet Evanovich (Seven Up)

"There's a strange sensation - you recall it from childhood - about sleeping in the afternoon. You rise into a different world from the one in which you lay down. The shadows have been rearranged. There's a sensation of sad sweetness, as if something has been overlooked. I used to feel it coming out of the movies just before dinnertime, after the matinee. How, I wondered, did Broadway actors face it, this bittersweet sense of time's slipping past."
— Jacquelyn Mitchard (The Breakdown Lane)

"What I'm mostly good at is sleeping, he once told me in confidence, but he added, I don't see much future in it."
— Brian Andreas

"Little princess, lovely as the dawn, well named Aurore."
— Cameron Dokey (Beauty Sleep: A Retelling of "Sleeping Beauty")

"Please don't wake me, no, don't shake me, leave me where I am, I'm only sleeping..."
— John Lennon

"I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting."
— Ronald Reagan