All Don DeLillo Quotes
- At night the sky was very near, sprawled in star smoke and gamma cataclysms, but she didn't see it the way she used to, as… Cataclysms
- War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country. Country
- Insanity's so personal. It's hard to know who shares our secrets. Hard
- Past, present and future are not amenities of language. Time unfolds into the seamsof being. It passes through you, making and shaping. Amenities
- How strange it is. We have these deep terrible lingering fears about ourselves and the people we love. Yet we walk around, talk to people,… Afraid
- The cheesecake was smooth and lush, with the personality of a warm and well-to-do uncle who knows a hundred dirty jokes and will die of… Arms
- Sometimes I see something so moving I know I’m not supposed to linger. See it and leave. If you stay too long, you wear out… Leave
- Years after I'd seen him for the last time I found myself thinking of him unexpectedly and often. You know how certain places grow powerful… Bed
- He speaks in your voice, American, and there's a shine in his eye that's halfway hopeful. American
- Longing on a large scale makes history. History
- Only a catastrophe gets our attention. We want them, we depend on them. As long as they happen somewhere else. This is where California comes… Alone
- The less important you are in an office, the more they expect the happy smile. Expect
- All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots. All
- 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 the… Anybody
- Some people are larger than life. Hitler is larger than death. Death
- I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next. But I will spend the rest of my life in this living space writing these… Acts
- People think about who they are in the stillest hour of the night. I carry this thought, the child's mystery and terror of this thought,… Carry
- Even when you self-destruct, you want to fail more, lose more, die more than others, stink more than others. Destruct
- Stories have no point if they don't absorb our terror. Absorb
- Too much has been forgotten in the name of memory. Been
- The less there was to see, the harder he looked, the more he saw. (Point Omega) Harder
- Sometimes a thing that's hard is hard because you're doing it wrong. (Point Omega) Funny
- She became confused when she stepped onto an escalator that wasn't working. Became
- It's all about time, dimwit time, inferior time, people checking watches and other devices, other reminders. This is time draining out of our lives. Cities… All
- Why is it so hard to be serious, so easy to be too serious? Easy