Cosmopolis Quotes

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

I like your mother. you have your mother's breasts."
"her breasts."
"great stand-up tits." he said ~ Don DeLillo

Why something and not nothing? why music and not noise? ~ Don DeLillo

It's not the sex you think i've had. it's the sex i want. that's what you smell on me. because the more i look at you, the more i know about us both.and the more i want to have sex with you. because there's a certain kind of sex that has an element of cleansing. it's the antidote to disillusion. the counterpoison._Eric Packer ~ Don DeLillo

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

She knows what he means, that they don't have to touch. the same thing that's happening to him is happening to her. she doesn't need to crawl under the table ans suck his dick. too tire to interest either one of them. the flow is strong between them. the emotional tone. let it express itself. he sees her in her wallow and feel his pelvic muscles begin to quiver. he say, tell me to stop and i'll stop. but he doesn't wait for her to reply. there isn't time. the tails of his sperm cells are lashing already. she is his sweetheart and lover and slut undying. he doesn't have to do the unspeakable thing he wants to do. he only has to speak it. because they're beyond every model of established behavior. he only wants to say the words. _Eric Packer ~ Don DeLillo

World is supposed to mean something that's self-contained. but nothing is self-contained. ~ Don DeLillo

You and I. We're here. So might as well. ~ Don DeLillo

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

Sex finds us. sex sees through us. that's why it's so shattering. it strips us of appearances._Eric Packer ~ Don DeLillo

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

Any assault on the borders of perception is going to seem rash at first. ~ Don DeLillo

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