01UndatedYou need to know things the others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.Don DeLillo / quote ↗
02UndatedSecrets 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.Don DeLillo / quote ↗
03UndatedSteffie took my hand and we walked past the fruit bins, an area that extended about forty-five yards along one wall. The bins were arranged diagonally and backed my mirrors that people accidentally punched when reaching for fruit in upper rows.Don DeLillo / quote ↗
05UndatedWould you ask a man who bags groceries if he fears death not because it is death but because there are still some interesting groceries he would like to bag?Don DeLillo / quote ↗
06UndatedIf you could stretch a given minute, what would you find between its unstuck components? Probably some kind of astral madness. A bleak comprehension of the final size of things.Don DeLillo / quote ↗
07UndatedDo you know why I believe in the novel? It’s a democratic shout. Anybody can write a great novel, one great novel, almost any amateur off the street. I believe this, George. Some nameless drudge, some desperado with barely a nurtured dream can sit down and find his voice and luck out and do it. Something so angelic it makes your jaw hang open. The spray of talent, the spray of ideas. One thing unlike another, one voice unlike the next. Ambiguities, contradictions, whispers, hints. And this is what you want to destroy.Don DeLillo / quote ↗
08UndatedWhen a writer doesn’t show his face, he becomes a local symptom of God’s famous reluctance to appear.Don DeLillo / quote ↗
09UndatedThere were no laptops or handheld devices in class. Ilgauskas didn't exclude them; we did, sort of, unspokenly. Some of us could barely complete a thought without touch pads or scroll buttons, but we understood that high-speed data systems did not belong here. They were an assault on the environment, which was defined by length, width, and depth, with time drawn out, computed in heartbeats.Don DeLillo / quote ↗
11UndatedWhat was the barn like before it was photographed?' he said. 'What did it look like, how was it different from other barns, how was it similar to other barns? We can't answer these questions because we've read the signs, seen the people snapping the pictures. We can't get outside the aura. We're part of the aura. We're here, we're now.Don DeLillo / quote ↗
12UndatedI have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it's enough to make me proud to be an American.Don DeLillo / quote ↗
14UndatedThat's why he was here, to surrender himself to longing, to listen to his host recite the anecdotal texts, all the passed-down stories of bonehead plays and swirling brawls, the pitching duels that carried into twilight, stories that Marvin had been collecting for half a century--the deep eros of memory that separates baseball from other sports.Don DeLillo / quote ↗
17UndatedThat's the world out there, little green apples and infectious disease.Don DeLillo / quote ↗
18UndatedIn the countryside he heard horns and drums and followed the sound to a temple of granite and marble set in a compound that included shrines and incense stalls, people squatting against the walls, beggars, touts, flower-sellers, those who watch over your shoes for a couple of weightless coins.Don DeLillo / quote ↗
19UndatedThis was the year he rode the subway to the ends of the city, two hundred miles of track.Don DeLillo / quote ↗
20UndatedHow many times do two people have to fuck before one of them deserves to die?" _Eric PackerDon DeLillo / quote ↗
21UndatedOrdinary 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 details of the past and know who I am. What I failed to know before is clearer now, filtered up through time, an experience belonging to no one else, not remotely, no one, anyone, ever. I watch her use the roller to remove lint from her cloth coat. Define coat, I tell myself. Define time, define space.Don DeLillo / quote ↗
22UndatedThe 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 hugeness.”“I know exactly what you mean.Don DeLillo / quote ↗
23UndatedShe 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 KinskiDon DeLillo / quote ↗
24UndatedEye contact was a delicate matter. A quarter second of a shared glance was a violation of agreements that made the city operational.Don DeLillo / quote ↗
