Delillo Quotes

“What we are reluctant to touch often seems the very fabric of our salvation.”
― Don Delillo

“Cities were built to measure time, to remove time from nature. There’s an endless counting down, he said. When you strip away all the surfaces, when you see into it, what’s left is terror. This is the thing that literature was meant to cure.”
― Don DeLillo, Point Omega

“Billy tried to imagine the birth of Cyril's wife's baby. It would happen in grim lights violently. A dripping thing trying to clutch to its hole. Dredged up and beaten. Blood and drool and womb mud. How cute, this neon shrieker made to plunge upward, odd-headed blob, this marginal electric glow-thing. Dressed and powdered now. Engineered to abstract design. Cling, suck and cry. Follow with the eye. Gloom and drought of unprotected sleep. Had there been a light in her belly, dim briny light in that pillowing womb, dusk enough to light a page, bacterial smear of light, an amniotic gleam that I could taste, old, deep, wet and warm? Return, return to negative unity.”
― Don DeLillo, Ratner's Star

“The Airborne Toxic Event has in fact occurred, and it’s even worse than he imagined. Subtler, more insidious, its victims’ deaths prolonged: resembling a normal cloud more than anything obviously virulent. And one of its first victims was the Culture. What it is now is a thing without reason.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“The Airborne Toxic Event has in fact occurred, and it’s even worse than he imagined. Subtler, more insidious, its victims’ deaths prolonged: resembling a normal cloud more than anything obviously virulent. And one of its first victims was the Culture. What it is now is a thing without reason.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo