" I don't sleep long, not more than six hours a night, and as soon as I'm awake I devote five or ten minutes to that rare occupation that goes under the name of thinking. What do I think about?
Coming out with it cold like this, it could well seem ridiculous: about the end of the world. I don't know when or how this habit began; not so long ago perhaps, after reading a book I came across on my father's desk - he's a physics professor at the university - one of those endless books about nuclear war. But then it's not quite correct to say that I think about nuclear war. If anything I think of the impossibility of thinking about it. Still, what is certain is that in those five or ten minutes after waking up, I don't think of anything else."


Albert Moravia, 'The Voyeur'