In these night recitations we create a space between things as we felt them at the time and as we speak them now. This is the space reserved for irony, sympathy and fond amusement, the means by which we rescue ourselves from the past.
Don DeLilloI don't know what I think about certain subjects, even today, until I sit down and try to write about them.
Don DeLilloMaybe when we die, the first thing we'll say is 'I know this feeling. I was here before'.
Don DeLillo