Frank

“She was afraid he would turn into one of those men who make a saintliness of their resentment, shining through the years with a pure and tortured light.”
― Don DeLillo, Libra

“Nietzsche’s diagnosis of deicide mutated into a malignant iconoclasm, not in the name of strength and life-affirming values as he had hoped, but in a “Harrison Bergeron”-style handicapping of all aspirational ideals.”
― Jack Donovan, Fire in the Dark: Men and Gods

“Writing was bad for the soul when you got right down to it. It protected your worst tendencies. Narrowed everything to failure and its devastations. Gave your cunning an edge of treachery and your jellyfish heart a reason to fall deeper into silence.”
― Don DeLillo, Mao II

“There is much here that is holy, an aberration in the heartland of the real.”
― Don DeLillo, Libra