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Don DeLillo's 'White Noise,' which I read when I was 19. It showed me that a book can be funny as hell and deadly serious. — Kevin Barry

I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood. — Don DeLillo

Their bumper sticker read GUN CONTROL IS MIND CONTROL. In situations like this, you want to stick close to people in right-wing fringe groups. — Don DeLillo

I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else. — Don DeLillo

It's healthier to reject certain cautions than fall in line. I assume you know that, he said. — Don DeLillo

It's not enough to hate your enemy. You have to understand how the two of you bring each other to deep completion. — Don DeLillo

At first it was only a nuisance. Now it's a nuisance that threatens to become a way of life. — Don DeLillo

He wanted to fuck her loudly on a hard bed with rain beating on the windows. — Don DeLillo

There's a dolphin's brain in my in-box but come see me in forty-eight hours. — Don DeLillo

The genius of rock music is that it matched the cultural hysteria around it. — Don DeLillo

Clouds are no deterrent. Clouds intensify the drama, trap and shape the light. — Don DeLillo

Maybe when we die, the first thing we'll say is, 'I know this feeling. I was here before. — Don DeLillo

I don't know whether to feel good or bad about learning that my experience is widely shared.'
'Feel bad,' he said. — Don DeLillo

I hate my life. I'm at the point where I want to hear about other people's lives. it's like switching from fiction to biography. — Don DeLillo

In my experience, writing a novel tends to create its own structure, its own demands, its own language, its own ending. — Don DeLillo

Let's enjoy the aimless days while we still can. — Don DeLillo

She became confused when she stepped onto an escalator that wasn't working. — Don DeLillo

In the dark the mind runs on like a devouring machine, the only thing awake in the universe. — Don DeLillo

People weren't saying Oh wow anymore. They were saying No way instead and she wondered if there was something she might learn from this. — Don DeLillo

I'd like to lose interest in myself ... — Don DeLillo

Someday you'll be a grown-up ... and then your mother will have no one to talk to. — Don DeLillo

I am very unmusical. I can't carry a tune. I would never be able to play an instrument. — Don DeLillo

California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom. — Don DeLillo

Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope. — Don DeLillo

Famous people don't want to be told that you have a quality in common with them. It makes them think there's something crawling in their clothes. — Don DeLillo

Decorative gestures add romance to a life. — Don DeLillo

Sometimes it takes an entire morning to outlive a dream, to outwake a dream. — Don DeLillo

Pleasure is not diversion but urgent life, a social order perceived as temporary. — Don DeLillo

It is just so interesting," he says at last. "The colors and all."
The colors and all. — Don DeLillo

Technology and violence are interdependent. — Don DeLillo

Everything that goes on in your whole life is a result of molecules rushing around somewhere in your brain. — Don DeLillo

You don't believe in heaven? A nun?'
'If you don't, why should I?'
'If you did, maybe I would.'
'If I did, you would not have to. — Don DeLillo

Brita said, 'I read at home, I read in hotels, I take a book with me on a twenty-minute trip to the dentist. Then I read in the waiting room. — Don DeLillo

The nice thing about life is that it's filled with second chances. Quoting Bill. — Don DeLillo

When I get real high I can feel the space between sounds. — Don DeLillo

Technology has become a force of nature. We can't control it. It comes blowing over the planet and there's nowhere for us to hide. — Don DeLillo

Facts are lonely things — Don DeLillo

I want to put your voice back inside your body, where it belongs. — Don DeLillo

One must become a book before one can know what is inside it. — Don DeLillo

That's what in theory differentiates a writer from everyone else. You see and hear more clearly. — Don DeLillo

I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism. — Don DeLillo

He said, "The word for moonlight is moonlight. — Don DeLillo

How stupid these people were, coming into my office unarmed. — Don DeLillo

The half-concealed disasters that constitute a life. — Don DeLillo

They know him at molecular level. He lives in them like chains of matter that determine who they are. — Don DeLillo

You and I. We're here. So might as well. — Don DeLillo

Secrets are an exalted state, almost a dream state. They're a way of arresting motion, stopping the world so we can see ourselves in it. — Don DeLillo

Past, present and future are not amenities of language. Time unfolds into the seamsof being. It passes through you, making and shaping. — Don DeLillo

We learn nothing from the stereotypes around us, not
even that we're all the same. — Don DeLillo

I want to immerse myself in American magic and dread. — Don DeLillo

This is what love comes down to, things that happen and what we say about them. — Don DeLillo

There are dead stars that still shine because their light is trapped in time. Where do I stand in this light, which does not strictly exist? — Don DeLillo

The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it? — Don DeLillo

You shout because it makes you brave or you want to announce your recklessness. — Don DeLillo

There was an honesty inherent in bulkiness if it is just the right amount. — Don DeLillo

When times are bad, people feel compelled to overeat. — Don DeLillo

I like simple men and complicated women. — Don DeLillo

As technology advances in complexity and scope, fear becomes more primitive. — Don DeLillo

He imagines they are uniformly smiling, showing the face they squeeze out with the toothpaste every morning. — Don DeLillo

Everything was on television last night — Don DeLillo

Too much engenders too much. — Don DeLillo

Fear is intense self-awareness. — Don DeLillo

I was too much of a Bronx kid to read Emerson or Hawthorne. — Don DeLillo

World is supposed to mean something that's self-contained. but nothing is self-contained. — Don DeLillo

Any assault on the borders of perception is going to seem rash at first. — Don DeLillo

We yell and scold as a way of paying homage to each other's views. This is the burden of friendship between extremely high-strung individuals. — Don DeLillo

I felt the distance and stillness of that sprawled dawn like some endless sky waking inside me, flared against the laughter. — Don DeLillo

I feel like an overwritten paragraph. — Don DeLillo

A word is also a picture of a word. — Don DeLillo

Hardship makes the world obscure. — Don DeLillo

There's always more to it. This is what history consists of. It is the sum total of the things they aren't telling us. — Don DeLillo

Stories have no point if they don't absorb our terror. — Don DeLillo

We can't get outside the aura. We're part of the aura. We're here, we're now. — Don DeLillo

Shouldn't death , I thought, be a swandive, graceful, white-winged and smooth, leaving the surface undisturbed?
Blue jeans tumbled in the dryer. — Don DeLillo

I had to wonder whether this interval had any more spread and breadth than just another sequestered moment, bordered by closed doors. We — Don DeLillo

A band played live Muzak. — Don DeLillo

A surface separates inside form out and belongs no less to one than the other. — Don DeLillo

Mouth cat's-cradled with filaments of gleaming cheese. — Don DeLillo

History is the angle at which realities meet. — Don DeLillo

How can people live their whole lives without knowing the names of their own parts of the body? — Don DeLillo

Because friends have to be brutally honest with each other. I'd feel terrible if I didn't tell you what I was thinking, especially at a time like this — Don DeLillo

Making things difficult for the reader is less an attack on the reader than it is on the age and its facile knowledge-market. — Don DeLillo

How I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. — Don DeLillo

There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down. — Don DeLillo

Every act he performed was self-haunted and synthetic. — Don DeLillo

What ambiguity there is in exalted things. We despise them a little. — Don DeLillo

The thinness of contemporary life. I can poke my finger through it. — Don DeLillo

We have to change truth a little in order to remember it. — Don DeLillo

It frequently happens that I begin a novel with just a visual image of something, a vague sense of people in three dimensional space. — Don DeLillo

Silence, exile, cunning and so on ... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work. — Don DeLillo

The truth of the world is exhausting. — Don DeLillo

I like your mother. you have your mother's breasts."
"her breasts."
"great stand-up tits." he said — Don DeLillo

All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots. — Don DeLillo

Everyone wants to own the end of the world. — Don DeLillo

Let's enjoy these aimless days while we can, I told myself, fearing some kind of deft acceleration. — Don DeLillo

I'm still sad, but you've given my sadness a richness and depth it has never known before. — Don DeLillo

In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic. — Don DeLillo

Everything I've stated may prove to be total poppycock ... Perhaps time will tell. Perhaps time will do nothing of the kind. — Don DeLillo

This was worse than a retched nightmare. It was the nightmare of real things, the fallen wonder of the world — Don DeLillo

Was he at the movies to see a movie, she said, or maybe more narrowly, more essentially, simply to be at the movies? — Don DeLillo