Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Everything is supposed to be something. But it never is. That's the nature of existence.” — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“The deeper we delve into the nature of things, the looser our structure may seem to become.” — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The view is endlessly fulfilling. It is like the answer to a lifetime of questions and vague cravings — 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
This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“She was plain except when she laughed. She was someone on the subway. She wore loose skirts and plain shoes and was… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“You could put your faith in technology. It got you here, it can get you out. This is the whole point of… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“It is the nature and pleasure of townspeople to distrust the city. All the guiding principles that might flow from a center… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Cities were built to measure time, to remove time from nature. There’s an endless counting down, he said. When you strip away… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots. Political plots, terrorist plots, lovers’ plots, narrative plots, plots that… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Let's examine the nature of the beast, so to speak. The male animal. Isn't there a fund, a pool, a reservoir of… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I long for the days of disorder. I want them back, the days when I was alive on the earth, rippling in… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“It's almost unbelievable when you think of it, how they live there in all that ice and sand and mountainous wilderness. Look… — 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
