I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next. But I will spend the rest of my life in this living space writing these notes, this journal, recording my acts and reflections, finding some honor, some worth at the bottom of things. I want ten thousand pages that will stop the world.
Don DeLillo[I]n the American soul there is a lonely individual standing in a vast landscape. โจHe is either on a horse or driving a car, depending, and either way heโs carrying a gun. โจThis is one of the essential images in American mythology.
Don DeLilloWhat you see is not what we see. What you see is distracted by memory, by being who you are, all this time, for all these years.
Don DeLilloFear is unnatural. Lightning and thunder are unnatural. Pain, death, reality, these are all unnatural. We can't bear these things as they are. We know too much. So we resort to repression, compromise and disguise. This is how we survive the universe. This is the natural language of the species.
Don DeLillo