Steven Wright on sleep

Last night I was playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.

I cried because I had no shoes, ‘till I met a man who had no feet. So I said, ‘You got any shoes you’re not using’?

I went into a restaurant and the sign said “Breakfast anytime,” so I ordered french toast during the Renaissance.

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.

Baltasar Gracián1601–1658

A few hours of mountain climbing turn a villain and a saint into two rather equal creature. Exhaustion is the shortest way to equality and fraternity, and liberty is added eventually by sleep.

Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900

If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

Dale Carnegie1888–1955