All Don DeLillo Quotes
- He took pains to avoid self-depreciation, self-mockery, ambiguity, irony, subtlety, vulnerability, a civilized world-weariness and a tragic sense of history--the very things, he says, that… Ambiguity
- Let's enjoy the aimless days while we still can. Aimless
- Everything that goes on in your whole life is a result of molecules rushing around somewhere in your brain. Around Somewhere
- Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world. Consolation
- If you know you're worth nothing, only a gamble with death can gratify your vanity. Death
- 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