I would have gone to law school, or gotten a psychology degree. I wasn't interested in sleeping on a futon forever. And what happened is I walked into auditions, and I had nothing to lose, because I had a backup plan.

— Julianna Margulies

Sensual Futon quotations

Let no man's deathbed be a futon.

There's a store in my neighborhood called Futon World.

I like that name, 'Futon World.' Makes me think of a magical place that gets less and less comfortable over time.

Did you really think I wouldn't recognize my college futon, with its trademark absence of sex stains?

Futon World - a wonderful place that becomes slowly less comfortable over time.

Nobody believes it, but I slept on a futon till I was 13.

Tofu and futons. The adepts of Orientalism seem to spend most of their lives reclining. They can't quite summon the energy to crawl up onto a chair. Even their Yogic exercises are carried out in a prone or sitting position.

I don't like futons. They can't commit. I'm a bed! I'm a couch! I'm a bed! I'm a couch!

In a way, you normalize your own childhood to yourself, so I never thought about how much I wrote as a kid. So I was there, confronted with it - so many notebooks, so many tiny plays. Every week we put on a play. We had a big futon, so my sister and I would use the futon as our stage, and I wrote little skits and made her faint because I found it so funny.

I imagined myself living in New York in some sort of open, large but sparse studio apartment with a lot of blond wood and a futon on the floor and a bubbling samovar of tea in the background and a big beard - living alone but with my beard - and doing theater. That's what I thought my life would be.

Realize that sleeping on a futon when you're 30 is not the worst thing.

You know what's worse, sleeping in a king bed next to a wife you're not really in love with but for some reason you married, and you got a couple kids, and you got a job you hate. You'll be laying there fantasizing about sleeping on a futon. There's no risk when you go after a dream. There's a tremendous amount to risk to playing it safe.

Bran was stripping her futon down to the bare mattress when she entered her apartment. It was sort of like watching the president mowing the White House lawn or taking out the trash.