Human existence had to have a deeper source than our own dank fluids. Dank or rank. There had to be a force behind it, a principal being who was and is and ever shall be.
Don DeLilloPast, present and future are not amenities of language. Time unfolds into the seamsof being. It passes through you, making and shaping.
Don DeLilloMaybe when we die, the first thing we'll say is 'I know this feeling. I was here before'.
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