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
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
“You shout because it makes you brave or you want to announce your recklessness.” — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Only a catastrophe gets our attention. We want them, we depend on them. As long as they happen somewhere else. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Say heat. Say wet between my legs. Say legs. Seriously, I want you to. Stockings. Whisper it. The word is meant to… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
There are times when you want to stop working at faith and just be washed in a blowing wind that tells you… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I didn’t do anything. I don’t have an explanation, I don’t know why I wanted to write. I did some short stories… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The future is always a wholeness, a sameness. We're all tall and happy there,' she said. 'This is why the future fails.… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Famous people don't want to be told that you have a quality in common with them. It makes them think there's something… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I don't want to do the type of writing where I recite biography, parentage and education. I want to rise up from… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Ask yourself this question. Do we have to be humans forever? Consciousness is exhausted. Back now to inorganic matter. This is what… — 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
First you look for discipline and control. You want to exercise your will, bend the language your way, bend the world your… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
In this country there is a universal third person, the man we all want to be. Advertising has discovered this man. It… — 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
I long for the days of disorder. I want them back, the days when I was alive on the earth, rippling in… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Only a catastrophe gets our attention. We want them, we depend on them. As long as they happen somewhere else. This is… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Her death would leave me scattered, talking to chairs and pillows. Don't let us die, I want to cry out to that… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Capital burns off the nuance in a culture. Foreign investment, global markets, corporate acquisitions, the flow of information through transnational media, 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
