813 Quotes by Don DeLillo

Secrets are an exalted state, almost a dream state. They’re a way of arresting motion, stopping the world so we can see ourselves in it.

There’s a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer’s will to live.

I’m not looking to wear the white man out with my ability to suffer.

It just means you are the sum total of your data. No man escapes that.

There’s always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.

Reality doesn’t happen until you analyze the dots.

You knew her for years and I knew her for minutes. It comes to the same thing. These matters have to be assessed in the light of eternity.

How memory conspires with objects of human craft, pressing time flat, inciting a tender reminiscence.

Her sweat is a rank reminder, the only one, that she exists, that she is separate from the things that surround her.