Quotes by Don DeLillo

“This was the year he rode the subway to the ends of the city, two hundred miles of track.”

“How many times do two people have to fuck before one of them deserves to die?" _Eric Packer”

“Ordinary moments make the life. This is what she knew to be trustworthy and this is what I learned, eventually, from those years we spent together. No leaps or falls. I inhale the little drizzly de...”

“The vast and terrible depth."Of course, he said.The inexhaustibility.I understand.The whole huge nameless thing.Yes, absolutely.The massive darkness.Certainly, certainly.The whole terrible endless ...”

“She was a voice with a body as afterthought, a wry smile that sailed through heavy traffic. Give her a history and she'd disappear.Eric Packer about Vija Kinski”

“Eye contact was a delicate matter. A quarter second of a shared glance was a violation of agreements that made the city operational.”

“The view is endlessly fulfilling. It is like the answer to a lifetime of questions and vague cravings.”

“Vanity is a defensive quality. it contains an element of fear.”

“No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.”

“I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it.”

“The power of the dead is that we think they see us all the time. The dead have a presence. Is there a level of energy composed solely of the dead? They are also in the ground, of course, asleep and...”

“When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numb...”

“Doesn't our knowledge of death make life more precious?'What good is a preciousness based on fear and anxiety? It's an anxious quivering thing”

“Supermarkets this large and clean and modern are a revelation to me. I spent my life in small steamy delicatessens with slanted display cabinets full of trays that hold soft wet lumpy matter in pal...”

“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 steep glide began, people rose, fell, collided, sw...”

“The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever.”

“Those who have abandoned belief must still believe in us. They are sure that they are right not to believe but they know belief must not fade completely. Hell is when no one believes. There must al...”

“The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation.”

“Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level.”

“Fear is intense self-awareness.”