Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there. On one level this truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language. I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence. The language of my books has shaped me as a man. There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.
Don DeLilloI have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it's enough to make me proud to be an American.
Don DeLilloEven when you self-destruct, you want to fail more, lose more, die more than others, stink more than others.
Don DeLillo