Nighttime Thinker Gifts

"Goodnight, Dan, you handsome devil!"

"I should just sleep on the toilet and save myself the trips."

"Star light star bright please let me wake up tomorrow and be a cat so I can sleep more and won't get my heart broken so much."

Bill got his best ideas late at night.

"Must you bring your work to bed?"

"You go on in, I’m just going to catch up with the moon for a few minutes."

That midnight hour when fleeting memories come home to roost.

'It's midnight, do you know where your brain is?'

"Looking at you, the moon and beyond, don't you think we could start a blog?"

"The overthinker"

"Why is it always me that has to get up just as I'm falling asleep to do things I forgot."

Pachyderm insomnia.

'Man asleep in double bed with a pencil.'

Night-shift entrance

'Mummy, can you please pull the curtain and make it dark please? I'm scared of the light...'

"Honey, wake up. I had that dream again where I wake up and you get angry at me for waking you up."

Baseball Dreams

"Let's go to sleep so that when we wake up today will be tomorrow."

'So, ten thousand pounds could be yours if you call in and answer this question...Why the hell aren't you in bed?!'

"I suppose you're wondering why I've summoned you here at 3 AM, minion." "I try not to wonder." "After crunching the numbers, I've determined we'd increase profits by being open 24/7." "We're in the suburbs. Everyone's asleep." "Not true. By being closed at 3 AM, we're missing out on the potentially-lucrative Igor the Wino clientele." "Go to the alley and give Igor a 1-for-the-price-of-2 coupon." "Very bad man."

Colin kept a notebook by his bed to write down any ideas he had during the night... "Genulph hyu donkey slapperthwaite."

"Someday, son, a giant conglomerate will find a way to harness the moonlight and make us pay for it."

"I also have trouble sleeping. I don't understand why. No one I talk to seems to have any trouble falling asleep."

What are you doing up, mom? Big meeting tomorrow. Must be prepared. It's one a.m.! Go to bed, young lady. You need your sleep. It must be late. I heard my voice coming out of your mouth. Scary!

Thoughts of Stephen Harper...

Tomorrow's another day, he thought, unless I get lucky and sleep right through it.

"The idea at 3 am. The idea at 7 am."

Expired, expired, expired, expired, expired, expired.

That's a street lamp, Steve.

Insomnia.

'I'm going to the library to study, so don't wait up.'

'I know these safety meetings tend to run very late, however... '

"We prefer our idea people to present their ideas during office hours."

"Wake up, baby. I just realized how my insomnia is all your fault."

"The magical time of night when the artist awakes, not with any idea, but with the murky recollection of an idea from the previous day that was not written down and is now lost forever."