Agendas, Hidden

I don't offer comforts except those that lurk in comedy and in structure and in language, and the comedy is probably not all that soothing. But before everything, there's language. Before history and politics, there's language. And it's language, the sheer pleasure of making it and bending it and seeing it form on the page and hearing it whistle in my head -- this is the thing that makes my work go.

- Don DeLillo from an interview in a 1993 Paris Review