“ I understood that he did not see the person he was talking to. He had the drifter's inclination to be impervious to names and faces. These were interchangeable components room to room, country to coun… Don DeLillo
“ I thought about soccer in history, the inspiration for wars, truces, rampaging mobs. The game was a global passion, spherical ball, grass or turf, entire nations in spasms of elation or lament. But wh… Don DeLillo
“ I think of kids. It makes me feel selfish, to be so wary of having a family. Never mind do I have a job or not. I'll have a job soon, a good one. That's not it. I'm in awe of raising, basically, someo… Don DeLillo
“ I see them in the primitive silkscreen the brain is able to produce, maybe eight inches in front of my closed eyes, miniaturised by time and distance, riddled by visual static, each figure a dancing r… Don DeLillo
“ I picked him up and set him against the steering wheel, facing me, his feet on my thighs. The huge lament continued, wave on wave. It was a sound so large and pure I could almost listen to it, try con… Don DeLillo
“ I liked reading books that nearly killed me, books that helped tell me who I was, the son who spites his father by reading such books. Don DeLillo
“ I am advising you in this matter not only as your chief of finance, but as a woman who would still be married to her husbands if they had looked at her the way you have looked at me here today. Don DeLillo
“ I am a twentiethcentury individual. I am working myself up to a point where I can exist beyond guilt, beyond blood, beyond the ridiculous past. Thank goodness for America. In this country there's a ch… Don DeLillo
“ He walked among the bookstore shelves, hearing Muzak in the air. There were rows of handsome covers, prosperous and assured. He felt a fine excitement, hefting a new book, fitting hand over sleek spin… Don DeLillo
“ He said, The word for moonlight is moonlight.This made her happy. It was logically complex and oddly moving and circularly beautiful and true - or maybe not so circular but straight as straight can be… Don DeLillo
“ Grass: I’ve invested heavily in blood futures. I have a direct line to the trading floor for polyester blood. There’s a heaving mass of men crying out their bids. The blood arrives at the warehouse in… Don DeLillo
“ Find someone to push him ever sunward.There's always something you're not supposed to see but it is a condition of growing up that you will see it. Don DeLillo
“ Every lost moment is the life. It's unknowable, except to us, each of us inexpressibly... Don DeLillo
“ A shrewd person would one day start a religion based on coincidence, if he hasn't already, and make a million. Don DeLillo
“ Who knows what I want to do? Who knows what anyone wants to do? How can you be sure about something like that? Isn't it all a question of brain chemistry, signals going back and forth, electrical ener… Don DeLillo
“ War is the ultimate realization of modern technology. For centuries men have tested themselves in war. War was the final test, the great experience, the privilege, the honor, the selfsacrifice or what… Don DeLillo
