813 Quotes by Don DeLillo

At night the sky was very near, sprawled in star smoke and gamma cataclysms, but she didn’t see it the way she used to, as soul extension, dumb guttural wonder, a thing that lived outside language in the oldest part of her.

Sleep was out there somewhere over the curve of the earth.

To be a tourist is to escape accountability. Errors and failings don’t cling to you the way they do back home. You’re able to drift across continents and languages, suspending the operation of sound thought. Tourism is the march of stupidity.

There’s never a dearth of reasons to shoot at the President.

I’d been doing this for a while, attempting to define a word for an object or even a concept. Define loyalty, define truth. I had to stop before it killed me. The.

I hate my life. I’m at the point where I want to hear about other people’s lives. it’s like switching from fiction to biography.

Freud is finished, Einstein’s next.

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. The air was full of rage and complaint. People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it.

Stories have no point if they don’t absorb our terror.