Pasquale

“No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.”
― Don DeLillo, White Noise

“But man is not made for defeat," he said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“It is all falling indelibly into the past.”
― Don DeLillo, Underworld

“Fiction’s about what it is to be a fucking human being.”
― David Foster Wallace