813 Quotes by Don DeLillo

The system was invisible, which made it all the more impressive, all the more disquieting to deal with. But we were in accord, at least for now.

We listen to the old radio shows. Light flares and spreads across the blue-banded edge, sunrise, sunset, the urban grids in shadow. There is a sweetness in the tenor voice of the young man singing, a simple vigour that time and distance and random noise have enveloped in eloquence and yearning. Every sound, every lilt of strings has this veneer of age.

You don’t know the connection? You don’t know that every privilege in your life and every thought in your mind depends on the ability of the two great powers to hang a threat over the planet?

The book was a challenge, a secondhand paperback crammed with huge and violent emotions in small crowded type on waterlogged pages.

People getting older become more fond of objects. I think this is true. Particular things. A leather-bound book, a piece of furniture, a photograph, a painting, the frame that holds the painting. These things make the past seem permanent. A baseball signed by a famous player, long dead. A simple coffee mug. Things we trust. They tell an important story. A person’s life, all those who entered and left, there’s a depth, a richness.

The truth of the world is exhausting.

Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past.

Fear is self awareness raised to a higher level.

Digital clocks took the space out of time.