Status Updates From Pafko at the Wall

"Nothing you’ve put into this is recoverable and you don’t know whether you want to leave at once or stay forever, living under a blanket in the wind."

DeLillo, Don. Pafko at the Wall: A Novella . Scribner. Kindle Edition.

"It seems the Soviet Union has conducted an atomic test at a secret location somewhere inside its own borders."

DeLillo, Don. Pafko at the Wall: A Novella . Scribner. Kindle Edition.

"When you see a thing like that, a thing that becomes a newsreel, you begin to feel you are a carrier of some solemn scrap of history."

DeLillo, Don. Pafko at the Wall: A Novella . Scribner. Kindle Edition.

"He speaks in your voice, American, and there’s a shine in his eye that’s halfway hopeful."

DeLillo, Don. Pafko at the Wall: A Novella . Scribner. Kindle Edition.