White Noise Quotes

Sweat trickled down my ribs. The digital reading on the clock-radio was 3:51. Always odd numbers at times like this. What does it mean? Is death odd-numbered? (11.1)

They feel a sense of renewal, of communal recognition. The women crisp and alert, in diet trim, knowing people's names. The husbands content to measure out the time, distant but ungrudging, accompl...

"Once you've seen the signs about the barn, it becomes impossible to see the barn." (3.19)

The smoke alarm went off in the hallway upstairs, either to let us know the battery had just died or because the house was on fire. We finished our lunches in silence. (2.31)

She seemed to think that if kids watched television one night a week with parents or stepparents, the effect would be to de-glamorize the medium in their eyes, make it wholesome domestic sport. [TV...

"I'm here to avoid situations. Cities are full of situations, sexually cunning people. There are parts of my body I no longer encourage women to handle freely." (3.12)

"We see only what the others see. The thousands who were here in the past, those who will come in the future. We've agreed to be part of a collective perception. This literally colors our vision. A...

Denise was eleven, a hard-nosed kid. She led a more or less daily protest against those of her mother's habits that struck her as wasteful or dangerous. (2.29)