I'd never felt more human than I did when my mother lay in bed, dying. This was not the frailty of a

I'd never felt more human than I did when my mother lay in bed, dying. This was not the frailty of a man who is said to be "only human," subject to a weakness or a vulnerability. This was a wave of sadness and loss that made me understand that I was a man expanded by grief.
----Don DeLillo, Zero K