The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever. The true life takes place when we're… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
There is a set of balances and rhythms to a novel that we can't experience in real life. So I think there… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“The nice thing about life is that it's filled with second chances. Quoting Bill.” — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
It was important for him to believe that he'd spent his life among people who kept missing the point. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Think of two parallel lines. […] One is the life of Lee H. Oswald. One is the conspiracy to kill the President.… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Think of the great poetry, the music and dance and ritual that spring forth from our aspiring to a life beyond death.… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“That's great. Tell me about it. I hate my life. I'm at the point where I want to hear about other people's… — 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
“The Agency was the one subject in his life that could never be exhausted. Central Intelligence. Beryl saw it as the best… — 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
I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next. But I will spend the rest of my life in this living… — 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
“The game doesn't change the way you sleep or wash your face or chew your food. It changes nothing but your life.” — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I used to think it was possible for an artist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“She saw the normative life of the planet, business people crossing streets beneath glass towers, the life of sitting on buses that… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
You feel sorry for yourself. You think you're missing something and you don't know what it is. You're lonely inside your life.… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Maybe he didn't want that life after all, starting over broke, hailing a cab in a busy intersection filled with jockeying junior… — 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
A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his life in… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
People think about who they are in the stillest hour of the night. I carry this thought, the child's mystery and terror… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Everything that goes on in your whole life is a result of molecules rushing around somewhere in your brain. — 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
