“ It's not enough to hate your enemy. You have to understand how the two of you bring each other to deep completion. Don DeLillo
“ It's like World War III. Everything is white. They'll take our bright colors away and use them in the war effort. Don DeLillo
“ It makes a man feel universal, floating over the continents, seeing the rim of the world, a line as clear as a compass arc, knowing it is just a turning of the bend to Atlantic twilight, to sediment p… Don DeLillo
“ It is the violent act that makes history and changes everything that came before. (154) Don DeLillo
“ In the subways, in many of the streets, in corners of the park at night, contact could be dangerous. Contact was not a word or a touch but the air that flashed between strangers. Don DeLillo
“ In societies reduced to blur and glut, terror is the only meaningful act. There's too much everything, more things and messages and meanings that we can use in ten thousand lifetimes. Inertia-hysteria… Don DeLillo
“ If you let me teach you not to end a sentence with a preposition, Edgar thought, I will save your life. Don DeLillo
“ I want to die and be finished forever. Don’t you want to die? he said. I don’t know. What’s the point of living if we don’t die at the end of it? In Don DeLillo
“ I needed death in order to believe I was living, an atmosphere of death much more real and personal than anything the newspapers can offer. Don DeLillo
“ I maintain myself on the puppet drug of personal technology. Every touch of a button brings the neural rush of finding something I never knew and never needed to know until it appears at my anxious fi… Don DeLillo
“ I have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it's enough to make me proud to be an American. Don DeLillo
“ How does a successful television commercial affect the viewer?It makes him want to change the way he lives.In what way? I said.It moves him from first person consciousness to third person. In this cou… Don DeLillo
“ How do we stand with others when the things that separate us are imposed at birth, when the separation haunts us and follows us day and night? Don DeLillo
“ He was waiting for a man with a knife to come out of a doorway at him. All this time, he told me, he had been trying to steal death from her body. By confronting it himself, he would keep it away from… Don DeLillo
“ He lay in bed open-eyed in the dark. There were intestinal moans from his left side, where gas makes a hairpin turn at the splenic flexure. He felt a mass of phlegm wobbling in his throat but he didn’… Don DeLillo