Cosmopolis Don Delillo Quotes

#1. That can't be good. If something has a nickname, that means it's big and being talked about. Not good at all.

James Dashner

#2. The love boat has crashed against the everyday
You and I, we are quits
And there is no use listing mutual hurts, sorrows, and pains.

Vladimir Mayakovsky

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

Don DeLillo

#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. [On Jane Austen] She was fully possessed of the idealism which is a necessary ingredient of the great satirist. If she criticized the institutions of earth, it was because she had very definite ideas regarding the institutions of heaven.

Rebecca West

#12. Great Art is Great because it inspired you greatly. If it didn't, no matter what the critics, the museums and the galleries say, it's not great art for you.

Yoko Ono

#13. 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

#14. I liked this idea: that peculiarness wasn't a deficiency, but an abundance; that it wasn't we who lacked something normals had, but they who lacked peculiarness. That we were more, not less.

Ransom Riggs

#15. So many artists say they're not aware of audience. For me is unbelievable.

Marina Abramovic

#16. Extinction is the beginning of the path: it is traveling to God Most High. Guidance comes afterwards. What I mean by guidance is the guidance of God, as described by the Friend of God, Abraham: "Lo! I am going unto my Lord Who will guide me."

Ibn Ata Allah

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

Don DeLillo

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

Don DeLillo

#19. I love movies that ask big questions but don't necessarily answer everything. I like people walking out thinking about something.

Joseph Kosinski

#20. I've been through a lot in life, and had some ups and downs. It's what's led me to this day.

Russell Wilson

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

Don DeLillo

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

Don DeLillo

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

Don DeLillo

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

Don DeLillo

#25. Being a Christian ... is a character which I prize far above all this world has or can boast.

Patrick Henry

#26. I challenge those who are in business and other professions to see that there are copies of the Book of Mormon in their reception rooms.

Ezra Taft Benson

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

Don DeLillo

#28. We begin to make the plan known to our children when we hold tight to the iron rod ourselves.

Rosemary M. Wixom

#29. It started as a selfish act and has turned into a way of life. I can't stand to watch someone throw anything away that belongs in my green bin.

Jen Hatmaker