The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of… — 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
Everything that goes on in your whole life is a result of molecules rushing around somewhere in your brain. — 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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
“this is the woman you are inside the life. looking at you, what? i'm more excited than i've been since the first… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Jessie was trying to read science fiction but nothing she read so far could begin to match ordinary life on this planet,… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
For me, wellbehaved books with neat plots and worked-out endings seem somewhat quaint in the face of the largely incoherent reality of… — 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… — 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
