I keep staring past the palm trees, watching the skies.

'My dreams start out calmly. I'll be younger and walking home from school and the day will be overcast, clouds gray and white and some of them purple. Then it'll start to rain and I'll begin to run. After running through all this falling water for what seems to be a really long time, I'll suddenly trip into mud and fall flat on the ground and because the earth's so wet, I start to sink, and the mud fills my mouth and I start to swallow it and it goes up through my nose and finally into my eyes and I don't wake up until I am completely underground.'

- Bret Easton Ellis, 'Less Than Zero'