Form Quote by Don DeLillo

“We all know how the thing we secretly fear is not a secret at all but the open and eternal thing that predicts its…

— Don DeLillo

Everything is barely weeks. Everything is days. We have minutes to live.

— Don DeLillo

The novel is the dream release, the suspension of reality that history needs to escape its own brutal confinements.

— Don DeLillo

“As I listened I thought a featureless baggy man was striking me in slow motion with a well-polished stone.”

— Don DeLillo

“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…

— Don DeLillo

“She is beginning to think it is possible that all creation is a spurt of blank matter that chances to make an emerald planet…

— Don DeLillo

“Those who have abandoned belief must still believe in us. They are sure that they are right not to believe but they know belief…

— Don DeLillo

“The plane had lost power in all three engines, dropped from thirty-four thousand feet to twelve thousand feet. Something like four miles. When the…

— Don DeLillo

“Grass: I live in a great steel tower that reflects the blazing sun. People catch fire just walking by. The more bodies that pile…

— Don DeLillo

“What people discard could make a nation”

— Don DeLillo

“Marriage is something we make from available materials. In this sense it’s improvised, it’s almost offhand. Maybe this is why we know so little…

— Don DeLillo

The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever. The true life takes place when we're alone, thinking,…

— Don DeLillo