All Don DeLillo Quotes
- A person rises on a word and falls on a syllable. Fall
- You live in a tower that soars to heaven and goes unpunished by God. God
- A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it. Earnest
- When birds look into houses, what impossible worlds they see. Bird
- Look at those numbers running. Money makes time. It used to be the other way around. Clock time accelerated the rise of capitalism. People stopped… Accelerated
- The future is always a wholeness, a sameness. We're all tall and happy there,' she said. 'This is why the future fails. It always fails.… All
- People will not die. Isn't this the creed of the new culture? People will be absorbed in streams of information. I know nothing about this.… Absorbed
- Everything's a scandal. Dying's a scandal. But we all do it. All
- Coming and going I am leaving. I will go and come. Leaving has come to me. We all, shall all, will all be left. Because… All
- Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level. Awareness
- That's the world out there, little green apples and infectious disease. Apples
- It is possible to be homesick for a place even when you are there. Funny
- I was always younger than anyone around me. One day it began to change. Always Younger
- There is a balance, a kind of standoff between the time continuum and the human entity, our frail bundle of soma and psyche. We eventually… Balance
- Dying was just an extended version of Ash Wednesday. Ash Wednesday
- For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking. Concentrated
- Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom. Alone
- It occured to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain. Attain
- Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunman have… Ago
- Thousands stand and chant. Around them in the world, people ride escalators going up and sneak secret glances at the faces coming down. People dangle… Across