"'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…"

"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…"

"We are each either among the demoralized showing the way to a future of eternal nightmare, or we are losers celebrati…"

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