“ The time of dangling insects arrived. White houses with caterpillars dangling from the eaves. White stones in driveways. You can walk at night down the middle of the street and hear women talking on t… Don DeLillo
“ TO BE A TOURIST is to escape accountability. Errors and failings don't cling to you the way they do back home. You're able to drift across continents and languages, suspending the operation of sound t… Don DeLillo
“ It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be that the next novel is a big one, but I don't know. Don DeLillo
“ That clean but lonely feeling when there are no other cars. The traffic lights changing just for you. Don DeLillo
“ Think of the great poetry, the music and dance and ritual that spring forth from our aspiring to a life beyond death. Maybe these things are justification enough for our hopes and dreams, although I w… Don DeLillo
“ I still respond to that thing you feel in an office, wearing a crisp suit and sensing the linked grids lap around you. It is all about the enfolding drone of the computers and fax machines. It is abou… Don DeLillo
“ Time and death: It's the ultimate vision of an artist at the end of everything. It's just what's there. It was not something I planned to do. Don DeLillo
“ Doesn't seem quite real. It's not meaningful. I can't quite imagine myself being 73. That's the age my father was! [Laughter.] How can I be his age? It's weird. Don DeLillo
“ It is the nature and pleasure of townspeople to distrust the city. All the guiding principles that might flow from a center of ideas and cultural energies are regarded as corrupt, one or another kind… Don DeLillo
“ Days like this. i look at you and feel electric. tell me you don't feel it too._Eric Packer Don DeLillo
“ The genius of the primitive mind is that it can render human helplessness in noble and beautiful ways. Don DeLillo
“ I want to eat lunch. you want to eat lunch. we're people in the world. we need to eat and talk._Eric Packer Don DeLillo
“ The flow is constant, Alfonse said. Words, pictures, numbers, facts, graphics, statistics, specks, waves, particles, motes. Only a catastrophe gets our attention. We want them, we need them, we depend… Don DeLillo
“ This is death. I don't want it to tarry awhile so I can write a monograph. I want it to go away for seventy or eighty years. Don DeLillo
“ I went to the room in Great Jones Street, a small crooked room, cold as a penny, looking out on warehouses, trucks and rubble. There was snow on the windowledge. Some rags and an unloved ruffled shirt… Don DeLillo
