Isn't death the boundary we need? Doesn't it give a precious texture to life, a sense of definition? You have to ask… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Before I fell asleep, eventually, was thinking when I was a small kid how I'd try to imagine the end of the… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Talent is everything. If you've got talent, nothing else matters. You can screw up your personal life something terrible. So what. If… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Nothingness is staring you in the face. Utter and permanent oblivion. You will cease to be. To be, Jack. The dier accepts… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
America is the world's living myth. There's no sense of wrong when you kill an American or blame America for some local… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers… — Don Delillo Copy Share Image
“There's the life and there's the consumer event. Everything around us tends to channel our lives toward some final reality in print… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“That's what it all comes down to in the end,' he said. 'A person spends his life saying good-bye to other people.… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
To plot is to live. […] We start out lives in chaos, in babble. As we surge up into the world, we… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“There's the life and there's the consumer event. Everything around us tends to channel our lives toward some final reality in print… — 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
Human existence had to have a deeper source than our own dank fluids. Dank or rank. There had to be a force… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The writer is driven by his conviction that some truths aren't arrived at so easily, that life is still full of mystery,… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I hate my life. I'm at the point where I want to hear about other people's lives. it's like switching from fiction… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“She wanted this only, to snuff out the pulse of the shaky faith she'd held for much of her life.” — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Brilliant people never think of the lives they smash, being brilliant. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Supermarkets this large and clean and modern are a revelation to me. I spent my life in small steamy delicatessens with slanted… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“The family is the cradle of the world’s misinformation. There must be something in family life that generates factual error. Over-closeness, the… — 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