Don DeLillo

“We all know how the thing we secretly fear is not a secret at all but the open and eternal thing that…

— Don DeLillo

Everything is barely weeks. Everything is days. We have minutes to live.

— Don DeLillo

The novel is the dream release, the suspension of reality that history needs to escape its own brutal confinements.

— Don DeLillo

“As I listened I thought a featureless baggy man was striking me in slow motion with a well-polished stone.”

— Don DeLillo

“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…

— Don DeLillo

“She is beginning to think it is possible that all creation is a spurt of blank matter that chances to make an…

— Don DeLillo

“Those who have abandoned belief must still believe in us. They are sure that they are right not to believe but they…

— Don DeLillo

“The plane had lost power in all three engines, dropped from thirty-four thousand feet to twelve thousand feet. Something like four miles.…

— Don DeLillo

“Grass: I live in a great steel tower that reflects the blazing sun. People catch fire just walking by. The more bodies…

— Don DeLillo

“What people discard could make a nation”

— Don DeLillo

“Marriage is something we make from available materials. In this sense it’s improvised, it’s almost offhand. Maybe this is why we know…

— Don DeLillo

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

I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.

— Don DeLillo

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

“There is no lie in war or preparation of war that can't be defended. ”

— Don DeLillo

True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter…

— Don DeLillo

“When Lee has a certain look on his face, eyes kind of amused, mouth small and tight, he finds himself thinking of…

— Don DeLillo

“The sewer system is a form of welfare state. It’s a government funnel to the sea.”

— Don DeLillo

I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.

— Don DeLillo

“The novel is a fucking killer. I try to show it every respect.”

— Don DeLillo

“The nice thing about life is that it's filled with second chances. Quoting Bill.”

— Don DeLillo

Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level.

— Don DeLillo

“I stood there, listening. The wind blew snow from the branches. Snow blew out of the woods in eddies and sweeping gusts.…

— Don DeLillo

“she knows what he means, that they don’t have to touch. the same thing that’s happening to him is happening to her.…

— Don DeLillo

Longing on a large scale makes history.

— Don DeLillo