5 Quotes by Kenneth Calhoun

If you stay awake long enough, you have dreams whether you’re sleeping or not, hallucinations. It’s where we really live, and when we’re awake, we’re just coming up for air.

The Moon was just a sickle of light, hanging in the sky among a wild spray of stars. All that cosmic luminance, traveling for millions of years, amounted to nothing more than a pale patch on the carpet.

There is a constant pressure, surging and eroding away the walls we have erected over the millenia by migrating the contents of our dreams into this world. Everything around us, the remnants of our world, was birthed in a dream, brought forth and hardened under the sun. Sleep is a bridge over which these fantastic constructions have been passed, piece by piece, particle by particle.

I’m like the bottom of the ocean inside, crushing submarines.

In dreams lie forgotten lifetimes of joy and torment, leaving only the shadow of memory.