Ours is a culture where we wear our ability to get by on very little sleep as a kind of badge of honor that symbolizes work ethic, or toughness, or some other virtue-but really, it's a total profound failure of priorities and of self-respect. Timothy Ferriss
He found his best satisfaction not in pleasure but in toil. He could live with little food, little sleep - and very little dalliance. The one thing he could not dispense with was work, and work in prodigious quantities. Napoleon Bonaparte
A little sleep and then a little wakefulness. Then a slipping to some soothing place in between. Hubert Selby Jr.