It is so much simpler to bury reality than it is to dispose of dreams

- Don Delillo

The greater the scientific advance, the more primitive the fear.

- Don Delillo

No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal …

- Don Delillo

What we are reluctant to touch often seems the very fabric of our salvation.

- Don Delillo

Maybe when we die, the first thing we'll say is 'I know this feeling. I was here before'.

- Don Delillo

I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.

- Don Delillo

Pain is just another form of information.

- Don Delillo

And what's the point of waking up in the morning if you don't try to match the enormousness of the known forces in the world with something powerful …

- Don Delillo

Fear is unnatural. Lightning and thunder are unnatural. Pain, death, reality, these are all unnatural. We can't bear these things as they are. We kno…

- Don Delillo