“All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots. Political plots, terrorist plots, lovers’ plots, narrative plots, plots that are part of children’s games. We edge nearer death every time we plot. It is like a contract that all must sign, the plotters as well as those who are the targets of the plot.” “To plot is to live,” he said. “To plot, to take aim at something, to shape time and space. This is how we advance the art of human consciousness.”

— In our words · Source: White Noise (Don DeLillo)