813 Quotes by Don DeLillo

When we reached the sidewalk, a lovely teen-age girl wearing pink eyelashes asked me for my autograph. “I don’t know who you are,” she said, “but I’m sure you must be somebody.

I felt the distance and stillness of that sprawled dawn like some endless sky waking inside me, flared against the laughter.

Make no mistake. I take these children seriously. It is not possible to see too much in them, to overindulge your causal gift for the study of character. It is all there, in full force, charged waves of identity and being. There are no amateurs in the world of children.

The world isn’t going to be destroyed, but you don’t feel safe anymore in your plane or train or office or auditorium.

All these people formed by language and climate and popular songs and breakfast foods and the jokes they tell and the cars they drive have never had anything in common so much as this, that they are sitting in the furrow of destruction.

I’m not just a college professor. I’m the head of a department. I don’t see myself fleeing an airborne toxic event. That’s for people who live in mobile homes out in the scrubby parts of the county, where the fish hatcheries are.

The ruins stood above the hissing traffic like some monument to doomed expectations.

The whole country’s going to puke blood when they read it.

I don’t consider myself paranoid at all. I think I see things exactly as they are.