I was never either pro-culture or counter-culture. I was in a kind of middle state. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Fame requires every kind of excess. I mean true fame, a devouring neon, not the sombre renown of waning statesmen or chinless… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Everything I've stated may prove to be total poppycock… Perhaps time will tell. Perhaps time will do nothing of the kind. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Every advance in knowledge and technique is matched by a new kind of death, a new strain. Death adapts, like a viral… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I see contemporary violence as a kind of sardonic response to the promise of consumer fulfilment in America. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The force of a death should be enormous but how can you know what kind of man you've killed or who was… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The world is shrinking into a kind of technological funnel. I think people are drawn into their technological devices, and this becomes… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The music I like best is kind of frozen in my mind from the Sixties and Seventies. I still listen to the… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I'm very concerned with questions of language. This is what I think of when I think of myself as a writer: I'm… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
There is a balance, a kind of standoff between the time continuum and the human entity, our frail bundle of soma and… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
For me, wellbehaved books with neat plots and worked-out endings seem somewhat quaint in the face of the largely incoherent reality of… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The best moments involve a loss of control. It's a kind of rapture, and it can happen with words and phrases fairly… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Sitting for a picture is morbid business. A portrait doesn't begin to mean anything until the subject is dead. This is the… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
We feel certain that the extraterrestrial message is a mathematical code of some kind. Probably a number code. Mathematics is the one… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“We all know how the thing we secretly fear is not a secret at all but the open and eternal thing that predicts its… — Don DeLillo Copy Share
The novel is the dream release, the suspension of reality that history needs to escape its own brutal confinements. — Don DeLillo Copy Share
“As I listened I thought a featureless baggy man was striking me in slow motion with a well-polished stone.” — Don DeLillo Copy Share
“Murray said, 'I don't trust anybody's nostalgia but my own. Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between… — Don DeLillo Copy Share
“She is beginning to think it is possible that all creation is a spurt of blank matter that chances to make an emerald planet… — Don DeLillo Copy Share
“Those who have abandoned belief must still believe in us. They are sure that they are right not to believe but they know belief… — Don DeLillo Copy Share
“The plane had lost power in all three engines, dropped from thirty-four thousand feet to twelve thousand feet. Something like four miles. When the… — Don DeLillo Copy Share
“Grass: I live in a great steel tower that reflects the blazing sun. People catch fire just walking by. The more bodies that pile… — Don DeLillo Copy Share
“Marriage is something we make from available materials. In this sense it’s improvised, it’s almost offhand. Maybe this is why we know so little… — Don DeLillo Copy Share
The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever. The true life takes place when we're alone, thinking,… — Don DeLillo Copy Share
I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version. — Don DeLillo Copy Share
There is a set of balances and rhythms to a novel that we can't experience in real life. So I think there is a… — Don DeLillo Copy Share
