I eased back on my elbows, tilting my head back to look up at the sky, which was pinkish, streaked with red. This was the time we knew best, that stretch of day going from dusk to dark. It seemed like we were always waiting for nighttime here. I could feel the trampoline easing up and down, moved by our own breathing, bringing us in small increments up and back from the sky as the colors faded, slowly, and the stars began to show themselves.
I have morning prayers and a nighttime reflection. I also read the Bible daily.
I have important business to get to. I plan to sulk all afternoon, followed, perhaps, by an evening of Byronic brooding and a nighttime of dissipation.
So, short stories have an even harder time, because they tend to get read during the day, between other things. They're interstitial. And yet the content of short stories tends to be very much "nighttime" content.
The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping.
The act of quiet nighttime talking, illustrates for me more than anything else the curious alchemy of companionship.
When I awoke it was daylight. The inside of my tent was coated in a curious flaky rime, which I realized after a moment was all of my nighttime snores, condensed and frozen and pasted to the fabric, as if into a scrapbook of respiratory memories.
At nighttime, you just try to keep him out of jail.
I don't think Israelis are less critical of corruption than people in Italy, France or America. Israel is special in a different way. There is a daytime Israel and a nighttime Israel. The first is self-confident, pushy and passionate, like other Mediterranean lands. It is hedonistic, materialistic and almost arrogant. During the nighttime, people are terrified, people are filled with existential dreads. These fears aren't baseless.
The window shades have all been removed. Nighttime is now free to encroach.
I can't write at night. For me, I'm programmed to believe that nighttime is for relaxation.
I find it so much easier to be creatively free at night. Daytime is for sleeping. Nighttime is the best time for making art. The later at night it gets the further into another world you go.
I should also say, in general, I just drank a lot. I shouldn't characterize it as "to get the courage to perform. " It was just an in-general nighttime activity. It definitely made it easier when I started doing stand-up. It was just much simpler to do a couple of shots. It made my nerves go away, for the most part. It just was something I sort of relied on for about the first four years.
In nighttime series, the actor gets billing up front on every episode.
For nighttime or for an event, I'm all about the nice heel. Something that's still walkable but definitely very elegant.
I feel like my body doesn't judge the hours, you know? It doesn't care if it's daytime or nighttime.
When I was about five my dad built a stage for me in our basement. A full stage, with a curtain, a backdrop and a dressing room. There were three colored spotlights - a red one, a white one, and a blue one. Blue was for nighttime scenes, and red was for when we were in hell. If the neighborhood kids wanted to use the stage, they had to incorporate me into the play.
If hers are the stars in the nighttime sky, mine are the haunted empty spaces in between.
Before she got here everything had stalled inside me, and every morning I was just moving toward nighttime.
I prefer to stroll which has a buddy at nighttime, than by itself inside the light.
