“ She was taking a round of medications, a mystical wheel, the ritualistic design of the hours and days in tablets and capsules, in colors, shapes and numbers. Don DeLillo
“ It's all about time, dimwit time, inferior time, people checking watches and other devices, other reminders. This is time draining out of our lives. Cities were built to measure time, to remove time f… Don DeLillo
“ It occurred to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain. Don DeLillo
“ If the world is where we hide from ourselves, what do we do when the world is no longer accessible? We invent a false name, invent a destiny, purchase a firearm through the mail. (148) Don DeLillo
“ I had not yet learned to appreciate the slowly gliding drift of identical things; chunks of time spun past me like meteorites in a universe predicated on repetition. Don DeLillo
“ He has abandoned his life to understanding that moment in Dallas, the seven seconds that broke the back of the American century. Don DeLillo
“ Have you ever seen so many people, she whispered, gathered in one place in order to be rich, powerful and disgusting together? Don DeLillo
“ Exile in a real place, a place of few bodies and many stones, is just an extension (a packaging) of the other exile, the state of being separated from whatever is left of the center of one’s own histo… Don DeLillo
“ And what do you remember, finally, when everyone has gone home and the streets are empty of devotion and hope, swept by river wind? Is the memory thin and bitter and does it shame you with its fundame… Don DeLillo
“ A Catholic gets it early. Incense, organ music, ashes on the forehead, wafer on the tongue. The best things shimmer with fear. Don DeLillo
“ You have to break through the structure of your own stonework habit just to make yourself listen. Don DeLillo
“ Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory. They make raids on human consciousness. What writ… Don DeLillo
“ Why shouldn't the death of a person you love bring you into lurid ruin? You don't know how to love the one you love until they disappear abruptly. Then you understand how thinly distanced from their s… Don DeLillo
“ To plot is to live. […] We start out lives in chaos, in babble. As we surge up into the world, we try to devise a shape, a plan. There is dignity in this. Your whole life is a plot, a scheme, a diagra… Don DeLillo
