"There’s always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down."― Don DeLillo Topic(s): NatureMore From Don DeLillo"I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language.""I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else.""People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power."More In Nature"England has always been disinclined to accept human nature."― E. M. Forster"If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if the simplest things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive."― Eleanora Duse"Books that distribute things… with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again."― Marsilio Ficino