“ Quel po' di senso di colpa che provavo dipendeva dall'immagine di Jennifer sola e umiliata, non dal banale tradimento di Meredith. Per Jennifer io rimanevo un enigma. Rifiutavo di concederle la minima… Don DeLillo
“ Prayer is a practical strategy, the gaining of temporal advantage in the capital markets of Sin and Remission. Don DeLillo
“ People will not die. Isn't this the creed of the new culture? People will be absorbed in streams of information. I know nothing about this. Computers will die. They're dying in their present form. The… Don DeLillo
“ People weren’t saying Oh wow anymore. They were saying No way instead and she wondered if there was something she might learn from this. Don DeLillo
“ People had hoped to be caught up in something bigger than themselves. They thought it would be a shared crisis. They would feel a sense of shared purpose, shared destiny. Like a snowstorm that blanket… Don DeLillo
“ People getting older become more fond of objects. I think this is true. Particular things. A leather-bound book, a piece of furniture, a photograph, a painting, the frame that holds the painting. Thes… Don DeLillo
“ On his fourth day with Castro he shot a government scout, aiming through a telescopic sight. It was uncanny. You press a button and a man drops dead a hundred meters away. It seemed hollow and remote,… Don DeLillo
“ No sense of the irony of human existence, that we are the highest form of life on earth and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die. Don DeLillo
“ News of disaster is the only narrative people need. The darker the news, the grander the narrative. News is the last addiction before—what? I don't know. But you're smart to trap us in your camera bef… Don DeLillo
“ My life is either/or. Either I chew regular gum or I chew sugarless gum. Either I chew gum or I smoke. Either I smoke or I gain weight. Either I gain weight or I run up the stadium step.''Sounds like… Don DeLillo
“ Money has lost its narrative quality the way painting did once upon a time. Money is talking to itself. Don DeLillo
“ Maybe they sensed that they were waving at themselves, waving in the hope that someday if evidence is demanded of their passage through time, demanded by their own doubts, a moment might be recalled w… Don DeLillo
“ Make no mistake. I take these children seriously. It is not possible to see too much in them, to overindulge your causal gift for the study of character. It is all there, in full force, charged waves… Don DeLillo
“ Le trame possiedono una logica. C'è una tendenza, nelle trame, a evolvere in direzione della morte. Don DeLillo
“ I’ll tell you what surprises me.Is it my eyes? Is it my lips?It’s your cat, he said.I don’t have a cat.That’s what surprises me.You think I’m a cat person.I see you with a cat, definitely. There ought… Don DeLillo
“ I’d been doing this for a while, attempting to define a word for an object or even a concept. Define loyalty, define truth. I had to stop before it killed me. The Don DeLillo
“ It’s the kind of human junk that deepens the landscape, makes it sadder and lonelier and places a vague sad subjective regret at the edge of your response—not regret so much as a sense of time’s own e… Don DeLillo
“ It was the best kind of class to have in the afternoon, an exercise in almost pure language, demanding nothing more than fractional consciousness since there wasn't the slightest hope of understanding… Don DeLillo
“ It was May of my senior year at Leighton Gage and on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons we sat in an air-conditioned hourglass and savored our own total incomprehension as an assistant professor charted… Don DeLillo
