Quotes from Don DeLillo, White Noise

I have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it's enough to make me proud to be an American.

I am the false character that follows the name around.

The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation.

California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.

That which we fear to touch is often the fabric of our salvation.

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.

I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it.

Would you ask a man who bags groceries if he fears death not because it is death but because there are still some interesting groceries he would like to bag?

Helpless and fearful people are drawn to magical figures, mythic figures, epic men who intimidate and darkly loom.

Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level.