Cosmopolis Best Quotes

#1. Freud is finished, Einstein's next.

Don DeLillo

#2. I like your mother. you have your mother's breasts."
"her breasts."
"great stand-up tits." he said

Don DeLillo

#3. I wasn't that good you know. What I was was a guy who could write a little, publishing in magazines surrounded by people who couldn't write at all. So I looked pretty good. But I never thought I was that good at all. All that I thought was that I tried to tell the truth.

Cornell Woolrich

#4. I want to eat lunch. you want to eat lunch. we're people in the world. we need to eat and talk._Eric Packer

Don DeLillo

#5. This is the woman you are inside the life. looking at you, what? i'm more excited than i've been since the first burning nights of adolescent frenzy. excited and confused. i look at you and feel an erection stirring even as the situation argues strenuously against it. _Eric Packer

Don DeLillo

#6. I look at you. i know what you are. you are sloppy-bodied, smelly and wet. a woman who was born to sit trapped in a chair while a man tells her how much she excites him. _Eric Packer

Don DeLillo

#7. How many times do two people have to fuck before one of them deserves to die? _Eric Packer

Don DeLillo

#8. It can't afford to be hard. it won't allow itself psychologically.

Don DeLillo

#9. You and I. We're here. So might as well.

Don DeLillo

#10. Holes are interesting. there are books about holes.

Don DeLillo

#11. If you ask the typical two- or three-year-old or a teenager what a robot is, they will think about a humanoid that does my homework for me or walks the dog. When I go and talk to kids and pull out the Roomba, it's not this big 'Wow!' moment.

Colin Angle

#12. It's there in your face, all of it, the way it rarely shows in any face. what do i see? something lazy, sexy and insatiable.

Don DeLillo

#13. Heaven may be
only the mind's fear of the wonders it imagines.

Deborah Digges

#14. Sex finds us. sex sees through us. that's why it's so shattering. it strips us of appearances._Eric Packer

Don DeLillo

#15. It was the case for a number of years that I was doing a book a year, but that was back when I was part-time teaching - and since 1991, I've been a parent, so that cuts into the time!

Chris Van Allsburg

#16. Our fears are groomed for us and implanted within us by others who did the same for themselves...

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#17. Days like this. i look at you and feel electric. tell me you don't feel it too._Eric Packer

Don DeLillo

#18. When he died he would not end. The world would end.

Don DeLillo

#19. Any assault on the borders of perception is going to seem rash at first.

Don DeLillo

#20. World is supposed to mean something that's self-contained. but nothing is self-contained.

Don DeLillo

#21. I am often struck by the anxious inferiority many well-educated British people display towards the U.S., particularly Londoners dazzled by New York, when many postcolonials are accustomed to regarding Britain's old imperial cosmopolis as the true capital of the western world.

Pankaj Mishra

#22. Why something and not nothing? why music and not noise?

Don DeLillo

#23. Cosmopolis is the movie of my life. I didn't consider myself an actor before, even if I had 10 years of acting behind me. I always felt like a fraud, and inappropriate. I doubt a lot. David Cronenberg gave me confidence in myself. He changed my way of acting and thinking in this industry.

Robert Pattinson