Quotes from Don DeLillo

Technology has become a force of nature. We can't control it. It comes blowing over the planet and there's nowhere for us to hide.

I moonlight, except there's nothing I'm moonlighting from. Moonlight is all that's out there.

Le trame possiedono una logica. C'è una tendenza, nelle trame, a evolvere in direzione della morte.

Transient pleasures, drastic measures.

But I only said, "Terrifying data is now an industry in itself. Different firms compete to see how badly they can scare us.

the basement. "What do you want to do?" she said. "Whatever you want to do." "I want to do whatever's best for you." "What's best for me is to please you," I said. "I want to make you happy, Jack." "I'm happy when I'm pleasing you." "I just want to do what you want to do.

I want to do whatever's best for you." "But you please me by letting me please you," she said. "As the male partner I think it's my responsibility to please." "I'm not sure whether that's a sensitive caring statement or a sexist remark." "Is it wrong for the man to be considerate toward his partner?

You would describe a tablet as small and white and expect a doctor to respond, at home, after ten at night. Why not tell be it is round? This is crucial to our case.

I have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it's enough to make be proud to be an American.

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.

All the amazement that's left in the world is microscopic.

Army ants have discipline, Bill said. Don't ask me what writers have.

Whiz Co was a firm with an inside track to the future. The Future of Waste.

How do you know so much?" Babette said. "I'm from New York.

You're saying maybe you're taking something that has the side effect of impairing memory." "Either I'm taking something and I don't remember or I'm not taking something and I don't remember. My life is either/or. Either I chew regular gum or I chew sugarless gum. Either I chew gum or I smoke. Either I smoke or I gain weight. Either I gain weight or I run up the stadium steps.

mouth cat's-cradled with filaments of gleaming cheese.

Old hospitals with saints' names are the ones you want to go to if you have cuts and abrasions. They haven't forgotten how to treat the classic Crusader wounds.

What happens to good an evil in this system? Passion, envy and hate? Do they become a tangle of neurons? Are you telling me that a whole tradition of human failings is now at an end, that cowardice, sadism, molestation are meaningless terms? Are we being asked to regard these things nostalgically? What about murderous rage? A murderer used to have a certain fearsome size to him. His crime was large. what happens when we reduce it to calls and molecules?

Love helps us develop an identity secure enough to allow itself to be placed in another's care and protection.

What can you think about in the face of this kind of beauty? I get scared, I know that.

Ses textes étaient des poèmes en prose, le genre de choses qu'écrivent les infirmières avant d'assister à leur première amputation.

Why try to describe it? It's enough to say that everything in our field of vision seems to exist in order to gather the light of this event.

The police had consulted Adele T. on a number of occasions and she had led them to two bludgeoned bodies, a Syrian in a refrigerator and a cache of marked bills totaling six hundred thousand dollars, although in each instance, the report concluded, the police had been looking for something else. The American mystery deepens.

I watched Denise make a mental comparison between her mother's running clothes and the wet bag she'd dumped in the compactor. I could see it in her eyes, a sardonic connection. It was these secondary levels of life, these extrasensory flashes and floating nuances of being, these pockets of rapport forming unexpectedly, that made me believe we were a magic act, adults and children together, sharing unaccountable things.