Tommy Mason

“I'm screaming for help and everybody's acting as if I'm singing Ethel Merman covers...”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“Your nearness is the nearness of planets. I am the void between you. If I withdraw there will be no void for you to swim in.”
― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

“The world of men and women are making merry in the cemetery grounds. They are having sexual intercourse, God bless them, and I am alone in the Land of Fuck.”
― Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn

“As a volunteer reader to the blind, Babette had some reservations about the old gent's appetite for the unspeakable and seamy, believing that the handicapped were morally bound to higher types of entertainment. If we couldn't look to them for victories of the human spirit, who could we look to? They had an example to set just as she did as a reader and morale-booster. But she was professional in her duty, reading to him with high earnestness, as to a child, about dead men who leave messages on answering machines.”
― Don DeLillo, White Noise