George Harrison: These books are such a lot of work. I don’t know how he did it all.

Mukunda, July 26, 1976, London: Srila Prabhupada, you’re going to outdo Shakespeare soon. You’ll have written more English words than William Shakespeare. (Prabhupada laughs) Maybe you already have.
Hari-sauri: I don’t think Shakespeare’s brought out fifty-six books.
Mukunda: The Encyclopedia Brittanica wrote to us asking for…
Prabhupada: They have said…
George Harrison: These books are such a lot of work. I don’t know how he did it all.
Gurudasa: While everyone else sleeps, Prabhupada…
George Harrison: Yes.
Prabhupada: At night I don’t sleep. Not that because I am nowadays sick.But generally I don’t sleep. At most two hours. At most.

Srila Prabhupada:Sleeping is waste of time.

Hari-sauri: I think it’s a long time since you’ve taken any rest at night.
Prabhupada: I take little rest during daytime. So on the whole, three to four hours. But actually I do not like to sleep.
George Harrison: No, it’s a waste of time.
Prabhupada: I think it is, when I go to sleep, I think that now I’m going to waste my time. I actually think like that.
George Harrison: What’s the word for…, the call it a little, little death. Sleep is the little death.
Prabhupada: The sastra also, Prahlada Maharaja describes the sleeping is waste of time. You find out that verse.
Conversation with George Harrison — July 26, 1976, London