All Don DeLillo Quotes
- If you reveal everything, bare every feeling, ask for understanding, you lose something crucial to your sense of yourself. You need to know things that… Allows
- ...Because what's the meaning of doing dishes if you're not driven by something beyond necessity. Beyond
- How many beginnings before you see the lies in your excitement? Beginnings
- We need time to lose interest in things. Inspirational
- To be a tourist is to escape accountability. Accountability
- Was she naked?" Lasher said. "To the waist," Cotsakis said. "From which direction?" Lasher said. Direction
- Prayer is a practical strategy, the gaining of temporal advantage in the capital markets of Sin and Remission. Advantage
- For most people, there are only two places in the world. Where they live and their TV set. If a thing happens on television, we… Every Right
- I used to think it was possible for an artist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that… Alter
- The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever. Anyone
- Doesn't seem quite real. It's not meaningful. I can't quite imagine myself being 73. That's the age my father was! [Laughter.] How can I be… Age
- When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For my readers, this is sometimes a vision… Familiar
- It was only after two years' work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular expectation that the novel… Deeper
- I'm not reclusive at all. Just private. All
- It is all falling indelibly into the past. All
- I long for the days of disorder. I want them back, the days when I was alive on the earth, rippling in the quick of… Alive
- It was important for him to believe that he'd spent his life among people who kept missing the point. Among
- He'd once told me that the art of getting ahead in New York was based on learning how to express dissatisfaction in an interesting way.… Ahead
- Be willing to die for your beliefs, or computer printouts of your beliefs. Belief
- Why shouldn't the death of a person you love bring you into lurid ruin? You don't know how to love the one you love until… Abruptly
- Eye contact was a delicate matter. A quarter second of a shared glance was a violation of agreements that made the city operational. Agreement
- It is so much simpler to bury reality than it is to dispose of dreams Bury
- Freud is finished, Einstein's next. Finished
- When he died he would not end. The world would end. Died
- days like this. i look at you and feel electric. tell me you don't feel it too."_Eric Packer Days