Leo Busch

“California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.”
― Don DeLillo, White Noise

“Find someone to push him ever sunward. There's always something you're not supposed to see but it is a condition of growing up that you will see it.”
― Don DeLillo, Mao II

“I thought about soccer in history, the inspiration for wars, truces, rampaging mobs. The game was a global passion, spherical ball, grass or turf, entire nations in spasms of elation or lament. But what kind of sport is it that disallows the use of players' hands, except for the goalkeeper? Hands are essential human tools, the things that grasp and hold, that make, take, carry, create. If soccer were an American invention, wouldn't some European intellectual maintain that our historically puritanical nature has compelled us to invent a game structured on anti-masturbatory principles?”
― Don DeLillo, The Angel Esmeralda

“And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.”
― Raymond Carver