“ But I wanted to read it now, I needed it now, even if I knew I’d never finish. I liked reading books that nearly killed me, books that helped tell me who I was, Don DeLillo
“ At first it was only a nuisance. Now it's a nuisance that threatens to become a way of life. Don DeLillo
“ All that incoherence. Selection, election, option, alternative. All behind him now. Codes and formats. Courses of action. Values, bias, predilection. Choice is a subtle form of disease. Don DeLillo
“ It occurred to me that perhaps in this city the crowd was essential to the individual; without it, he had nothing against which to scrape his anger, no echo for grief, and not the slightest proof that… Don DeLillo
“ E depois? Você não fica se perguntando? Não apenas o mês que vem. Os anos. - Depois não tem nada. Não tem depois. O depois era isso. Oito anos atrás eles puseram uma bomba numa das torres. Ninguém per… Don DeLillo
“ È tipico dell'adolescente immaginare la fine del mondo come un accessorio del proprio contesto Don DeLillo
“ You don't believe in heaven? A nun?''If you don't, why should I?''If you did, maybe I would.''If I did, you would not have to. Don DeLillo
“ You are sure that you are right but you don’t want everyone to think as you do. There is no truth without fools. Don DeLillo
“ Why don't you want to be Jewish anymore?I'm tired of the guilt. That enormous nagging historical guilt.What guilt?The guilt of being innocent victims. Don DeLillo
“ Whatever you set your mind to, your personal total obsession, this is what kills you. Poetry kills you if you're a poet, and so on. People choose their death whether they know it or not. Don DeLillo
“ What's the importance of a photograph if you know the writer's work? But people still want the image, don't they? The writer's face is the surface of the work. It's a clue to the mystery inside. Don DeLillo
“ We’re steeped in gruesomely humorous ambiguity, a spectacle of ridiculous people doing awful things to total fools. Don DeLillo
“ We saw a cloudwall hung many miles to the east and hawks floating in the unforced motion that makes you think they’ve been up there, the same two birds since bible times. Don DeLillo
“ We are not witnessing the flow of information so much as pure spectacle, or information made sacred, ritually unreadable. The small monitors of the office, home and car become a kind of idolatry here,… Don DeLillo
“ Was he at the movies to see a movie, she said, or maybe more narrowly, more essentially, simply to be at the movies? Don DeLillo
“ This was New York. Every living breathing genotype entered his cab at some point, day or night. And if this was an inflated notion, that was New York as well. Two Don DeLillo
“ They’ve grown comfortable with their money,’ I said. ‘They genuinely believe they’re entitled to it. This conviction gives them a kind of rude health. They glow a little. Don DeLillo
