“ To men at this remove, it is as though things exist in their particular physical form in order to reveal the hidden simplicity of some powerful mathematical truth. Don DeLillo
“ There's just so much time set aside for baffled reaction. I believe we've reached the limit. Don DeLillo
“ There is a darkness attached to them, a foreboding. They make me wary not of personal failure and defeat but of something more general, something large in scope and content. Don DeLillo
“ The nonbelievers need the believers. They are desperate to have someone believe. As belief shrinks from the world, people find it more necessary than ever that someone believe...Those who have abandon… Don DeLillo
“ The book was a challenge, a secondhand paperback crammed with huge and violent emotions in small crowded type on waterlogged pages. Don DeLillo
“ The art of getting ahead in New York was based on learning how to express dissatisfaction in an interesting way. Don DeLillo
“ That's what it all comes down to in the end. A person spends his life saying good-bye to other people. How does he say good-bye to himself? Don DeLillo
“ Stun me. I mean it. Draw the gun and shoot. I want you to do it, Kendra. Show me what it feels like. I'm looking for more. Show me something I don't know. Stun me to my DNA. Come on, do it. Click the… Don DeLillo
“ Shouldn't death , I thought, be a swandive, graceful, white-winged and smooth, leaving the surface undisturbed?Blue jeans tumbled in the dryer. Don DeLillo
“ Once you start a file, Delphine, it's just a matter of time before the material comes pouring in. Notes, lists, photos, rumors. Every bit and piece and whisper in the world that doesn't have a life un… Don DeLillo
“ Old hospitals with saints’ names are the ones you want to go to if you have cuts and abrasions. They haven’t forgotten how to treat the classic Crusader wounds. Don DeLillo
“ Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It's a settling of grievances between the present and the past. Don DeLillo
“ Is cyberspace a thing within the world or is it the other way around? Which contains the other, and how can you tell for sure? Don DeLillo
“ I've bought these peanuts before. They're round, cubical, pock-marked, seamed. Broken peanuts. A lot of dust at the bottom of the jar. But they taste good. Most of all I like the packages themselves.… Don DeLillo
“ I'm at that certain stage in a night of drinking and talking when I see things clearly through a small opening, a window in space. Don DeLillo
“ I will read, she said. But I don’t want you to choose anything that has men inside women, quote-quote, or men entering women. ‘I entered her.’ ‘He entered me.’ We’re not lobbies or elevators. ‘I wante… Don DeLillo
“ I could feel myself lapsing into my smallest self, all the vainglorious ideas around me shrunk into personal reverie because what am I in this place but someone in need of self-defense. • Don DeLillo
“ I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next. But I will spend the rest of my life in this living space writing these notes, this journal, recording my acts and reflections, finding some honor, s… Don DeLillo
