All Don DeLillo Quotes
- Isn't death the boundary we need? Doesn't it give a precious texture to life, a sense of definition? You have to ask yourself whether anything… Ask
- There is a world inside the world. Funny
- the instant he knew he loved her, she slipped down his body and out of his arms Arms
- Talent is more erotic when it's wasted. Erotic
- People in free societies don't have to fear the pathology of the state. We create our own frenzy, our own mass convulsions, driven by thinking… Authority
- I don't want to do the type of writing where I recite biography, parentage and education. I want to rise up from the words on… Biographies
- Some nights I need to be held. Tonight I'm a listener. So nice to lie in rumpled sheets and listen. Cover me with words. Cover
- You need to know things the others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself. Allows
- Ask yourself this question. Do we have to be humans forever? Consciousness is exhausted. Back now to inorganic matter. This is what we want. We… Ask
- I have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it's enough to make me proud to be an American. American
- People hurried past, the others of the street, endless anonymous, twenty-one lives per second, race-walking in their faces and pigments, sprays of fleetest being. Anonymous
- In these night recitations we create a space between things as we felt them at the time and as we speak them now. This is… Amusement
- Look past the violence. There is a wonderful brimming spirit of innocence and fun. Brimming
- Her death would leave me scattered, talking to chairs and pillows. Don't let us die, I want to cry out to that fifth-century sky ablaze… Ablaze
- It was the time of year, the time of day, for a small insistent sadness to pass into the texture of things. Dusk, silence, iron… Bone
- Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope. Hope
- That's why people take vacations. No to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things. Death
- The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities. Abandoned
- Brilliant people never think of the lives they smash, being brilliant. Brilliant
- Time seems to pass. The world happens, unrolling into moments, and you stop to glance at a spider pressed to its web. There is a… Awareness