Outstanding quotes from White Noise

Some memorable quotes from the wonderful novel White Noise by Don DeLillo:

What we are reluctant to touch often seems the very fabric of our salvation. (31)

There were no addresses. Her friends had phone numbers only, a race of people with seven-bit analog consciousness. (41)

Television is just another name for junk mail. (50)

"You know what's in my medicine chest. What secrets are left?" (62)

People have no tolerance for you particular hardship unless you know how to entertain them with it. (65)

He wore his camouflage jacket and cap, an outfit with complex meaning for him, at fourteen, struggling to grow and to escape notice simultaneously... (109)

Society is set up in a way that it's the poor and uneducated that suffer the main impact of natural and man-made disasters. (114)

I feel sad for people and the queer part we play in our own disasters. (126)

"I'd like to lose interest in myself. Is there any chance of that happening?" (152)

A California think tank says the next world war may be fought over salt. (226)

There was a pause like a missing tick in eternity. (232)

Murray said it was possible to be homesick for a place even when you're there. (257)

It's all corporate tie-in. The marketing, the fear, the disease...you can't have one without the other. (264)

This must be how people escape the pull of the earth-the gravitational leaf-flutter that brings us hourly closer to dying. Simply stop obeying. Steal, instead of buy. Shoot,instead of talk. (302)

"The nonbelievers need the believers. They are desperate to have someone believe." (318)