“ I drove all night, northeast, and once again I felt it was literature I had been confronting these past days, the archetypes of the dismal mystery, sons and daughters of the archetypes, images that co… Don DeLillo
“ I don't know whether to feel good or bad about learning that my experience is widely shared.''Feel bad,' he said. Don DeLillo
“ I believe, Jack, there are two kinds of people in the world. Killers and diers. Most of us are diers. We don't have the dispoisiton, the rage or whatever it takes to be a killer. We le death happen. W… Don DeLillo
“ How strange it is. We have these deep terrible lingering fears about ourselves and the people we love. Yet we walk around, talk to people, eat and drink. We manage to function. The feelings are deep a… Don DeLillo
“ He was thinking about automated teller machines. The term was aged and burdened by its own historical memory. It worked at cross-purposes, unable to escape the inferences of fuddled human personnel an… Don DeLillo
“ He looked at a picture on the wall and saw everything that existed outside the room he was sitting in and the one he was trying to write about. It was a picture of fishing nets stowed in canvas basket… Don DeLillo
“ He and Kennedy were partners. The figure of the gunman in the window was inextricable from the victim and his history. Don DeLillo
“ Everyone was a spook or dupe or asset, a double, courier, cutout or defector, or was related to one. We were all linked in a vast and rhythmic coincidence, a daisy chain of rumor, suspicion and secret… Don DeLillo
“ Even as he printed the words, he imagined people reading them, people moved by his loneliness and disappointment, even by his wretched spelling, the childish mesh of his composition. Let them see the… Don DeLillo
“ Do you think I'm somehow healthier because I don't know how to repress? Is it possible that constant fear is the natural state of man and that by living close to my fear I am actually doing something… Don DeLillo
“ Devices make us pliant. We want to please them. The machine was his only hope of deliverance after what he'd done, what he'd loosed into the crowd. A way out of death. - (362) Don DeLillo
“ But idealists of course are unpredictable. They tend to be the ones who turn bitter overnight, deceived by lies they’ve told themselves. Don DeLillo
“ You knew her for years and I knew her for minutes. It comes to the same thing. These matters have to be assessed in the light of eternity. Don DeLillo
“ Would you ask a man who bags groceries if he fears death not because it is death but because there are still some interesting groceries he would like to bag? Don DeLillo
“ When we reached the sidewalk, a lovely teen-age girl wearing pink eyelashes asked me for my autograph. I don't know who you are, she said, but I'm sure you must be somebody. Don DeLillo
