When I work I have a sculptor's sense of the shape of the words I'm making. I use a machine with larger… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
People will not die. Isn't this the creed of the new culture? People will be absorbed in streams of information. I know… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“He was thinking about automated teller machines. The term was aged and burdened by its own historical memory. It worked at cross-purposes,… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Be willing to die for your beliefs, or computer printouts of your beliefs. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
There's something nearly mystical about certain words and phrases that float through our lives. It's computer mysticism. Words that are computer generated… — 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
“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
“Devices make us pliant. We want to please them. The machine was his only hope of deliverance after what he'd done, what… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The shock, the power of an ordinary life. It is a thing you could not invent with banks of computers in a… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
What good is knowledge if it just floats in the air? It goes from computer to computer. It changes and grows every… — 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 Image
Everything is barely weeks. Everything is days. We have minutes to live. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The novel is the dream release, the suspension of reality that history needs to escape its own brutal confinements. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“As I listened I thought a featureless baggy man was striking me in slow motion with a well-polished stone.” — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
