Prayer is a practical strategy, the gaining of temporal advantage in the capital markets of Sin and Remission.
Don DeLilloIt was important for him to believe that he'd spent his life among people who kept missing the point.
Don DeLilloPeople stress the violence. That's the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there's a calm, a tranquility. The players accept pain. There's a sense of order even at the end of a running play with bodies strewn everywhere. When the systems interlock, there's a satisfaction to the game that can't be duplicated. There's a harmony.
Don DeLillo