“ We are fragile creatures surrounded by a world of hostile facts. Facts threaten our happiness and security. The deeper we delve into the nature of things, the looser our structure may seem to become. Don DeLillo
“ My arms on the cinder track. Kids came running our way, thirty girls in bright shorts, an improbable bobbing mass. The eager breathing, the overlapping rhythms of their footfalls. Sometimes I think ou… Don DeLillo
“ A life terrain, might itself be the object of a person’s study and wonder for years. A cosmology against the void. Don DeLillo
“ [Lee Oswald] saw himself as part of something vast and sweeping. He was the product of a sweeping history, he and his mother, locked into a process, a system of money and property that diminished thei… Don DeLillo
“ [It] wants you to believe there are foreseeable trends and forces. When in fact it's all random phenomena. You apply mathematics and other disciplines, yes. But in the end you're dealing with a system… Don DeLillo
“ You try to predict movements by drawing on patterns in nature. Yes, of course, the mathematical properties of tree rings, sunflower seeds, the limbs of galactic spirals. I learned this. I loved the cr… Don DeLillo
“ You could put your faith in technology. It got you here, it can get you out - Murray (WN 285). Don DeLillo
“ World is supposed to mean something that's self-contained. Everything enters something else. My days spill into light-years. This is why I can only pretend to be someone. And this is why I felt derive… Don DeLillo
“ What good is my truth? My truth means nothing. What if this guy with the gun comes from a planet in a whole different solar system? What we call rain he calls soap. What we call apples he calls rain.… Don DeLillo
“ We're not gonna die We're not gonna die We're not gonna die, leading them in a chant, a mantra that was joyful and mock joyful at the same time because this is New York, New York and we want it both w… Don DeLillo
“ We watched him use his spoon to mold the mashed potatoes on his plate into the shape of a volcanic mountain. He poured gravy ever so carefully into the opening at the top. Then he set to work ridding… Don DeLillo
“ We drove in silence behind a motorboat being towed by a black pickup. I thought of his remarks about matter and being, those long nights on the deck, half smashed, he and I, transcendence, paroxysm, t… Don DeLillo
“ War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country. Don DeLillo
“ Você não sente às vezes um poder dentro de você?, pergunta Vollmer. Um estado extremo de saúde, sei lá. Uma saúde arrogante. É isso. Você se sente tão bem que começa a achar que é um pouco superior às… Don DeLillo
“ To weigh three hundred pounds. What devout vulgarity. It seemed a worthwhile goal for prospective saints and flagellants. The new asceticism. All the visionary possibilities of the fast. To feed on th… Don DeLillo
“ To Charles it was a mark of one's respect for other cultures to know the terms of local abuse and the words for sex acts and natural wastes. Don DeLillo
“ This was the first of the St. Augustines. Previous memos had borne messages from Zwingli, Lévi-Strauss, Rilke, Chekhov, Tillich, William Blake, Charles Olson and a Kiowa chief named Satanta. Naturally… Don DeLillo
“ This spot was so close to perfect we would not even want to tell ourselves how lucky we were, having been delivered to it. The best of new places had to be protected from our own cries of delight. We… Don DeLillo
