I think if you maintain a force in the world that comes into people's sleep, you are exercising a meaningful power. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
It occurred to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
How strange it is. We have these deep terrible lingering fears about ourselves and the people we love. Yet we walk around,… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
It's all about time, dimwit time, inferior time, people checking watches and other devices, other reminders. This is time draining out of… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
People in free societies don't have to fear the pathology of the state. We create our own frenzy, our own mass convulsions,… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Brilliant people never think of the lives they smash, being brilliant. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Do people still shoot at presidents? I thought there were more stimulating targets.” — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
It frequently happens that I begin a novel with just a visual image of something, a vague sense of people in three… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
People stress the violence. That's the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it… — 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
We don't really know how technology will affect narrative. That's the question. See, people used to say that the novel is going… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Writing is a concentrated form of thinking...a young writer sees that with words he can place himself more clearly into the world.… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
He'd once told me that the art of getting ahead in New York was based on learning how to express dissatisfaction in… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
That's why people take vacations. No to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in… — 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 Image
Everything is barely weeks. Everything is days. We have minutes to live. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The novel is the dream release, the suspension of reality that history needs to escape its own brutal confinements. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“As I listened I thought a featureless baggy man was striking me in slow motion with a well-polished stone.” — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
