“It is time to “perform,” he thought. She would have to be “satisfied.” He would have to “service” her. They would make… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
What you see is not what we see. What you see is distracted by memory, by being who you are, all this… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Time is a corporate asset now. It belongs to the free market system. The present is harder to find... The future becomes… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I think my work is influenced by the fact that we're living in dangerous times. If I could put it in a… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I understand there are some men who are only half here. Let's not say men. Let's say people. People who are more… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
There are times when you want to stop working at faith and just be washed in a blowing wind that tells you… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Certainly I've never tried to imagine what the future will hold. It's a hopeless endeavor to try to do such a thing. — 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
“There was something theatrical about the protest, ingratiating even. . . . There was a shadow of transaction between the demonstrators and… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Look at those numbers running. Money makes time. It used to be the other way around. Clock time accelerated the rise of… — 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
“Another one says she has asnap-off crotch. What do you think she means by that? I'm a little worried,though, about all these… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The power of the dead is that we think they see us all the time. The dead have a presence. Is there… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Grass: I’ve invested heavily in blood futures. I have a direct line to the trading floor for polyester blood. There’s a heaving… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
What did it mean, the first time, a thinking creature looked deeply into another's eyes? Did it take a hundred thousand years… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Every time she saw a videotape of the planes she moved a finger toward the power button on the remote. Then she… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“The time of dangling insects arrived. White houses with caterpillars dangling from the eaves. White stones in driveways. You can walk at… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Something about the occasion makes me think I'm at my own wake. Sitting for a picture is morbid business. A portrait doesn't… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Within sixty-minute limits or one-hundred-yard limits or the limits of a game board, we can look for perfect moments or perfect structures.… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Crowds, Scott said. People trudging along wide streets, pushing carts or riding bikes, crowd after crowd in the long lens of the… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Everything I've stated may prove to be total poppycock… Perhaps time will tell. Perhaps time will do nothing of the kind. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“There are dead stars that still shine because their light is trapped in time. Where do I stand in this light, which… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Time is a corporate asset now. It belongs to the free market system. The present is harder to find. It is being… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The best moments involve a loss of control. It's a kind of rapture, and it can happen with words and phrases fairly… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Six point nine seconds of heat and light. Let's call a meeting to analyze the blur. Let's devote our lives to understanding… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Plot a murder, you're saying. But every plot is a murder in effect. To plot is to die, whether we know it… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“But it can't be true that he drifts from one reality to another, independent of the logic of time. This is not… — 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
![“Plot a murder, you're saying. But every plot is a murder in effect. To plot is to die, whether we know it or not. [...] To plot, to take aim at something, to shape time and space. This is how we advance the art of human consciousness. (WN 291-2)” quote by Don DeLillo](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/713/don-delillo-294_human-consciousness_plot-a-murder-you-re-saying-but-every-pl_3098490.jpg)
