“ 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
“ I believed we could know what was happening to us. We were not excluded from our own lives. That is not my head on someone else's body in the photograph that's introduced as evidence. I didn't believe… Don DeLillo
“ Her death would leave me scattered, talking to chairs and pillows. Don't let us die, I want to cry out to that fifth-century sky ablaze with mystery and spiral light. Let us both live forever, in sick… Don DeLillo
“ He had ambitions on my behalf and more or less at my expense. This is the custom among men who have failed to be heroes; their sons must prove that the seed was not impoverished. Don DeLillo
“ He drove into the spewing smoke of acres of burning truck tires and the planes descended and the transit cranes stood in rows at the marine terminal and he saw billboards for Hertz and Avis and Chevy… Don DeLillo
“ God made big people. And God made little people. But Colt made the .45 to even things up. Don DeLillo
“ For most people, there are only two places in the world. Where they live and their TV set. If a thing happens on television, we have every right to find it fascinating, whatever it is. Don DeLillo
“ Fee-uck, man. This game is still on. I get that sixty-two yet. I get his ass and whip it into shape. Damnright. I get that shitpiss sixty-two and beat his black ass into the ground. He’s white, I said… Don DeLillo
“ Eye contact was a delicate matter. A quarter second of a shared glance was a violation of agreements that made the city operational. Don DeLillo
“ Everything that goes on in your whole life is a result of molecules rushing around somewhere in your brain. Don DeLillo
“ Everybody knows the thing about an infinite number of monkeys, Fenig said. An infinite number of monkeys is put to work at an infinite number of typewriters and eventually one of them reproduces a gre… Don DeLillo
“ Every time she saw a videotape of the planes she moved a finger toward the power button on the remote. Then she kept on watching. The second plane coming out of that ice blue sky, this was the footage… Don DeLillo
“ Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there. On one level this truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down… Don DeLillo
“ Every advance in knowledge and technique is matched by a new kind of death, a new strain. Death adapts, like a viral agent. Don DeLillo
“ El sexo nos descubre. El sexo nos revela como somos. Por eso es tan estremecedor. Nos despoja de toda apariencia. Don DeLillo
“ Don’t you sometimes feel a power in you? An extreme state of good health. An arrogant healthiness. That’s it. You are feeling so good you begin thinking you’re a little superior to most people. An opt… Don DeLillo
“ Civilization did not rise and flourish as men hammered out hunting scenes on bronze gates and whispered philosophy under the stars, with garbage as a noisome offshoot, swept away and forgotten. No, ga… Don DeLillo
