“I began to think of myself as a perennial tourist. There was something agreeable about this. To be a tourist is to… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“I think it's a mistake to lose one's sense of death, even one's fear of death. Isn't death the boundary we need?… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
To be a tourist is to escape accountability. Errors and failings don't cling to you the way they do back home. You're… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“TO BE A TOURIST is to escape accountability. Errors and failings don't cling to you the way they do back home. You're… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Even when you self-destruct, you want to fail more, lose more, die more than others, stink more than others. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“There is a darkness attached to them, a foreboding. They make me wary not of personal failure and defeat but of something… — 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
