Books Quote by E.L. Doctorow

“I cite too the ordinary fears of mortality the inspection of a fast-growing mole on the side of the nose blood in the stool…

— E.L. Doctorow

“And what if neutrinos in their uncountable multitudinous dark-matteredness gravitationally directing the universe . . . are the souls of the dead?”

— E.L. Doctorow

“It was as if God had decreed this characterless engagement of brainless forces as his answer to the human presumption.”

— E.L. Doctorow

“Treason the only crime defined in the Constitution. Tyranny as under the Stuart and Tudor kings characterized by the elimination of political dissent under…

— E.L. Doctorow

“I remember holding her in my arms and absolving God of meaninglessness.”

— E.L. Doctorow

“Somehow he had catapulted himself beyond the world's value system. But this very fact lay upon him an awesome responsibility to maintain the illusions…

— E.L. Doctorow

“Emily supposed the modern world was fortunate in the progress of science. But she could not help but feel at this moment the impropriety…

— E.L. Doctorow

“Father looked at her and she was beautiful in the way she had been as a girl. He did not realize the pleasure he…

— E.L. Doctorow

“Happiness consists of living in the dailiness of life and not knowing how happy you are. True happiness comes of not knowing you're happy.”

— E.L. Doctorow

“Grandmamma had been the last connection to our past. I had understood her as some referent moral authority to whom we paid no heed,…

— E.L. Doctorow

“I asked this question: How can I think about my brain when it’s my brain doing the thinking? So is this brain pretending to…

— E.L. Doctorow

“She's some kind of Socialist-anarchist-anarcho-syndicalist-Communist. Unless you're one of them you can't tell exactly what any of them are.”

— E.L. Doctorow