Don DeLillo

“As a volunteer reader to the blind, Babette had some reservations about the old gent's appetite for the unspeakable and seamy, believing…

— Don DeLillo

“You stand at the table shuffling papers and you drop something. Only you don't know it. It takes a second or two…

— Don DeLillo

“I went to the room in Great Jones Street, a small crooked room, cold as a penny, looking out on warehouses, trucks…

— Don DeLillo

“In societies reduced to blur and glut, terror is the only meaningful act. There's too much everything, more things and messages and…

— Don DeLillo

“She was taking a round of medications, a mystical wheel, the ritualistic design of the hours and days in tablets and capsules,…

— Don DeLillo

The less there was to see, the harder he looked, the more he saw. (Point Omega)

— Don DeLillo

If any art form can accommodate contemporary culture, it's the novel. It's so malleable - it can incorporate essays, poetry, film. Maybe…

— Don DeLillo

There were moments when she wasn't talking so much as fading into time, dropping back into some funnelled stretch of recent past.

— Don DeLillo

Everything's a scandal. Dying's a scandal. But we all do it.

— Don DeLillo

“There is enough mystery in the facts as we know them, enough of conspiracy, coincidence, loose ends, dead ends, multiple interpretations. There…

— Don DeLillo

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

“Jessie was trying to read science fiction but nothing she read so far could begin to match ordinary life on this planet,…

— Don DeLillo

Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they…

— Don DeLillo

“He wanted to fuck her loudly on a hard bed with rain beating on the windows.”

— Don DeLillo

That's why people take vacations. No to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in…

— Don DeLillo

What good is knowledge if it just floats in the air? It goes from computer to computer. It changes and grows every…

— Don DeLillo

“One must become a book before one can know what is inside it.”

— Don DeLillo

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

I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood.

— Don DeLillo

The cheesecake was smooth and lush, with the personality of a warm and well-to-do uncle who knows a hundred dirty jokes and…

— Don DeLillo

“Cotter thinks he sees a path to the turnstile on the right. He drains himself of everything he does not need to…

— Don DeLillo

“it's not the sex you think I've had. it's the sex i want. that's what you smell on me. because the more…

— Don DeLillo

I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next.

— Don DeLillo

The question of dying becomes a wise reminder. It cures us of our innocence of the future.

— Don DeLillo