“That which we fear to touch is often the very fabric of our salvation. ” — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
As technology advances in complexity and scope, fear becomes more primitive. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“There is another kind of belief, a second force, insecure, untrusting, a faith that is spring-fed by the things we fear in… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Doesn't our knowledge of death make life more precious?' What good is a preciousness based on fear and anxiety? It's an anxious… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“We all know how the thing we secretly fear is not a secret at all but the open and eternal thing that… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Fear is unnatural. Lightning and thunder are unnatural. Pain, death, reality, these are all unnatural. We can't bear these things as they… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
People in free societies don't have to fear the pathology of the state. We create our own frenzy, our own mass convulsions,… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Do you think I'm somehow healthier because I don't know how to repress? Is it possible that constant fear is the natural… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Something about the time of year depressed him deeply. Overcast skies and cutting wind, leaves falling, dusk falling, dark too soon, night… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
How strange it is. We have these deep terrible lingering fears about ourselves and the people we love. Yet we walk around,… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Something about the time of year depressed him deeply. Overcast skies and cutting wind, leaves falling, dusk falling, dark too soon, night… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Once out of the mailroom, I began to learn more about fear. As soon as fear begins to ascend, anatomically, from the… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Picture yourself, Jack, a confirmed homebody, a sedentary fellow who finds himself walking in a deep wood. You spot something out of… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“There’s a kind of theology at work here. The bombs are a kind of god. As his power grows, our fear naturally… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“We all know how the thing we secretly fear is not a secret at all but the open and eternal thing that predicts its… — Don DeLillo Copy Share
The novel is the dream release, the suspension of reality that history needs to escape its own brutal confinements. — Don DeLillo Copy Share
“As I listened I thought a featureless baggy man was striking me in slow motion with a well-polished stone.” — Don DeLillo Copy Share
“Murray said, 'I don't trust anybody's nostalgia but my own. Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between… — Don DeLillo Copy Share
“She is beginning to think it is possible that all creation is a spurt of blank matter that chances to make an emerald planet… — Don DeLillo Copy Share
“Those who have abandoned belief must still believe in us. They are sure that they are right not to believe but they know belief… — Don DeLillo Copy Share
“The plane had lost power in all three engines, dropped from thirty-four thousand feet to twelve thousand feet. Something like four miles. When the… — Don DeLillo Copy Share
“Grass: I live in a great steel tower that reflects the blazing sun. People catch fire just walking by. The more bodies that pile… — Don DeLillo Copy Share
“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… — Don DeLillo Copy Share
The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever. The true life takes place when we're alone, thinking,… — Don DeLillo Copy Share
I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version. — Don DeLillo Copy Share
There is a set of balances and rhythms to a novel that we can't experience in real life. So I think there is a… — Don DeLillo Copy Share
