Parker Smith

“How much pleasure did you take as a kid,” Lasher said, “in imagining yourself dead?”
― Don DeLillo, White Noise

“Murray said, “I don’t trust anybody’s nostalgia but my own. Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It’s a settling of grievances between the present and the past. The more powerful the nostalgia, the closer you come to violence. War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.”
― Don DeLillo, White Noise