“ When a writer doesn't show his face, he becomes a local symptom of God's famous reluctance to appear.We're all drawn to remoteness. A hard-to-reach place is necessarily beautiful. Beautiful and a litt… Don DeLillo
“ What good is knowledge if it just floats in the air? It goes from computer to computer. It changes and grows every second of every day. But nobody actually knows anything. Don DeLillo
“ WYATT: What kind of sound waves?DR. BAZELON: Tapes of the cries of baby mice. This sound reaches a level of forty thousand cycles per second. It's the purest thing in nature. Don DeLillo
“ Tuition at the College-on-the-Hill is fourteen thousand dollars, Sunday brunch included. Don DeLillo
“ Traffic was stopped dead and I nudged the window switch and listened to the blowing horns approach peak volume. We were trapped in our own obsessive clamor. Don DeLillo
“ This is not a story about your disappointment at my silence. The theme of this story is my pain and my attempts to end it. Don DeLillo
“ These are among the people I've tried to know twice, the second time in memory and language. Through them, myself. They are what I've become, in ways I don't understand but which I believe will accrue… Don DeLillo
“ There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live. Don DeLillo
“ There is another kind of belief, a second force, insecure, untrusting, a faith that is spring-fed by the things we fear in the night. Don DeLillo
“ The words were old and true, full of reassurance, comfort, consolation. Men followed such words to their death because other men before them had done the same, and perhaps it was easier to die than ad… Don DeLillo
“ The white marble surface was inlaid with semiprecious stones in seamless floral designs and in chaste calligraphy, shaped stones, jeweled stones, delicate and free-figured. The surface ran cool and sm… Don DeLillo
“ The students tend to stick close to campus. There is nothing for them to do in Blacksmith proper, no natural haunt or attraction. They have their own food, movies, music, theater, sports, conversation… Don DeLillo
“ The smoke alarm went off in the hallway upstairs, either to let us know the battery had just died or because the house was on fire. Don DeLillo
“ The ceiling angled down right over me and I raised my arm and touched it with my fingertips. All children, I thought, should be permitted to sleep in such a room; the child loves nooks and odd angles… Don DeLillo
“ That's what it all comes down to in the end,' he said. 'A person spends his life saying good-bye to other people. How does he say good-bye to himself? Don DeLillo
