“ People seemed to depend on his cheerfulness. The less important you are in an office, the more they expect the happy smile. Don DeLillo
“ Only writing could soak up his loneliness and pain. Written words could tell him who he was. Don DeLillo
“ Money was spiritual indemnity against some unspecifiable future loss. It existed in purest form in his mind, my money, a reinforcing source of meditation. Don DeLillo
“ Marriage is something we make from available materials. In this sense it’s improvised, it’s almost offhand. Maybe this is why we know so little about it. It’s too inspired and quicksilver a thing to b… Don DeLillo
“ Many things that were anchored to the balance of power and the balance of terror seem to be undone, unstuck. Things have no limits now. Money has no limits. I don’t understand money anymore. Money is… Don DeLillo
“ It was amazing how often kind-looking people turned out to be crazy. He wondered gravely whether things had reached such bad state that only crazy people attempted commonplace acts of kindness, that t… Don DeLillo
“ It makes me feel true to the system, knowing that unnecessary risk is integral to the code of urban pathology. • Don DeLillo
“ It is interesting to think of the great blaze of heaven that we winnow down to animal shapes and kitchen tools. Don DeLillo
“ Isn't it possible that this midcentury moment enters the skin more lastingly than the vast shaping strategies of eminent leaders, generals steely in their sunglasses -- the mapped visions that pierce… Don DeLillo
“ I've heard about a man and woman who are walking the length of the Great Wall of China, approaching each other from opposite directions. Every time I think of them, I see them from above., with the Wa… Don DeLillo
“ I'm not saying we shouldn't grieve. Just, why don't we put it in God's hands? she said. Why haven't we learned this, after all the evidence of all the dead? We're supposed to believe in God but then w… Don DeLillo
“ I'll tell you what I long for, the days of disarray, when I didn't give a damn or a fuck or a farthing. Don DeLillo
“ I thought of women in other places, streets and boulevards in major cities, wind blowing, a woman’s skirt lifting in the breeze, the way the wind tenses the skirt, giving shape to the legs, making the… Don DeLillo
“ I moonlight, except there’s nothing I’m moonlighting from. Moonlight is all that’s out there. Don DeLillo
“ I have a deep thought for you. Science fiction is just beginning to catch up with the Old Testament. See artificial nitrates run off into the rivers and oceans. See carbon dioxide melt the polar ice c… Don DeLillo
“ I don’t like not believing. I’m not at peace with it. I take comfort when others believe. Karen thinks God is here. Like walkin’ and talkin’. I want others to believe, you see. Many believers everywhe… Don DeLillo
“ I don't want to do the type of writing where I recite biography, parentage and education. I want to rise up from the words on the page and do something, hurt someone. Don DeLillo
