We live in an age of rapid mass media, television, Internet. They determine our tempo, not books.
Don DeLilloPeople hurried past, the others of the street, endless anonymous, twenty-one lives per second, race-walking in their faces and pigments, sprays of fleetest being.
Don DeLilloFor most people, there are only two places in the world. Where they live and their TV set. If a thing happens on television, we have every right to find it fascinating, whatever it is.
Don DeLillo