“ What is a nebulous mass, just out of idle curiosity?A possible growth in the body.And it's called nebulous because you can't get a clear picture of it.We get very clear pictures. The imaging block tak… Don DeLillo
“ What do children know? They know who they are, she said, in ways we can’t know and they can’t tell us. Don DeLillo
“ What about the Americans? Eerie people. Genetically engineered to play squash and work weekends. Don DeLillo
“ Weede si alzò in piedi per un secondo e piegò leggermente le ginocchia - come faceva sempre mio padre quando le mutande gli si incagliavano in qualche anfratto delle regioni inguinali, spiegando a me… Don DeLillo
“ We surrounded ourselves with smoke and loud noise. That's the way we chose to live. I'm prepared to defend it. Don DeLillo
“ We listen to the old radio shows. Light flares and spreads across the blue-banded edge, sunrise, sunset, the urban grids in shadow. There is a sweetness in the tenor voice of the young man singing, a… Don DeLillo
“ We lead more interesting lives than we think. We are characters in plots, without the compression and numinous sheen. Our lives, examined carefully in all their affinities and links, abound with sugge… Don DeLillo
“ We create beautiful and lasting things, build vast civilizations. Gorgeous evasions, he said. Great escapes. Don DeLillo
“ We are the sum total of our data, I told her, just as we are the sum total of our chemical impulses. I Don DeLillo
“ To have true socialism, he said, we first establish capitalism, totally and heartlessly, and then destroy it by degrees, bury it in the sea. Don DeLillo
“ Time seems to pass. The world happens, unrolling into moments, and you stop to glance at a spider pressed to its web. There is a quickness of light and a sense of things outlined precisely and streaks… Don DeLillo
“ Time is a corporate asset now. It belongs to the free market system. The present is harder to find. It is being sucked out of the world to make way for the future of uncontrolled markets and huge inve… Don DeLillo
“ Those blanked-out eternities at the airport. Getting there, waiting there, standing shoeless in long lines. Think about it. We take off our shoes and remove our metal objects and then enter a stall an… Don DeLillo
“ This was worse than a retched nightmare. It was the nightmare of real things, the fallen wonder of the world Don DeLillo
“ This sentiment was expressed not so much in words and actions as in terrible and articulate sounds Don DeLillo
“ This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on the other. Technology is lust removed from nature. - Murray (WN 285) Don DeLillo
“ This is American two-one-three to the cockpit voice recorder. Now we know what it’s like. It is worse than we’d ever imagined. They didn’t prepare us for this at the death simulator in Denver. Our fea… Don DeLillo