"'For as long as I can remember,' I said, continuing to speak to the figure standing in the archway, 'I have had an in…"

"I know in a way I never knew before that there is nowhere for me to go, nothing for me to do, and no one for me to kn…"

"What makes a nightmare nightmarish is the sense that something is happening that should not be. While nightmares are …"

"To give a relatively common example, we might consider the plot of a traffic accident, an event that is commonly expe…"

"But we isolate the nightmare by calling it imaginary and denying it a place in our real life; we anchor ourselves in …"

"Nothing belongs to us. Everything is something that is rented out. Our very heads are filled with rented ideas passed…"

"It has always seemed to me that my existence consisted purely and exclusively of nothing but the most outrageous nons…"

"In those moments, which were eternal I assure you, I had no location in the universe, nothing to grasp for that minim…"

"You lie in the bed, an arm full of tubes, a mind full of drugs, but still thinking. You see the figure enter the quie…"

"Look at your body— A painted puppet, a poor toy Of jointed parts ready to collapse, A diseased and suffering thing Wi…"