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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

That's what it all comes down to in the end,' he said. 'A person spends his life saying good-bye to other people. How does he say good-bye to himself? — Don DeLillo

I think literature has lost it's power. Great novels continue to be written, but they are no longer changing the world. — Don DeLillo

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

Sex finds us. sex sees through us. that's why it's so shattering. it strips us of appearances._Eric Packer — 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

Being called a 'bad citizen' is a compliment to a novelist, at least to my mind. That's exactly what we ought to do. — Don DeLillo

It's there in your face, all of it, the way it rarely shows in any face. what do i see? something lazy, sexy and insatiable. — Don DeLillo

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

That's why people take vacations. No to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things. — Don DeLillo

Any curly-haired boy can write windswept ballads. You have to crush people's heads. That's the only way to make those fuckers listen. — 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

When a writer doesn't show his face, he becomes a local symptom of God's famous reluctance to appear. — 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

He speaks in your voice, American, and there's a shine in his eye that's halfway hopeful. — 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

It's true that some of us become better writers by living long enough. But this is also how we become worse writers. The trick is to die in between. — Don DeLillo

He thinks he's happy but it's just a nerve cell in his brain that's getting too much stimulation or too little stimulation. — Don DeLillo

The whole country's going to puke blood when they read it. — 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

Words are not necessary to one's experience of the true life. — Don DeLillo

Just because it's on the radio doesn't mean we have to suspend belief in the evidence of our senses. — Don DeLillo

Man's guilt in history and in the tides of his own blood has been complicated by technology, the daily seeping falsehearted death. — Don DeLillo

Freud is finished, Einstein's next. — 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

Sometimes a thing that's hard is hard because you're doing it wrong. (Point Omega) — 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

Certainly I've never tried to imagine what the future will hold. It's a hopeless endeavor to try to do such a thing ... — Don DeLillo

In cities no one notices specific dying. Dying is a quality of the air. It's everywhere and nowhere. — Don DeLillo

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

There's just so much time set aside for baffled reaction. I believe we've reached the limit. — Don DeLillo

I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it. — Don DeLillo

One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language. — Don DeLillo

Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail. — Don DeLillo

Talent is more erotic when it's wasted. — Don DeLillo

Insanity's so personal. It's hard to know who shares our secrets. — Don DeLillo

There's never a dearth of reasons to shoot at the President. — Don DeLillo

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

Because what's the meaning of doing dishes if you're not driven by something beyond necessity. — Don DeLillo

I understand there are some men who are only half here. Let's not say men. Let's say people. People who are more or less obscure at times. — Don DeLillo

Before pop art, there was such a thing as bad taste. Now there's kitsch, schlock, camp, and porn. — Don DeLillo

In a country that's in a hurry to make the future, the names attached to the products are an enduring reassurance. — Don DeLillo

It's like World War III. Everything is white. They'll take our bright colors away and use them in the war effort. — Don DeLillo

We surrounded ourselves with smoke and loud noise. That's the way we chose to live. I'm prepared to defend it. — Don DeLillo

That's the world out there, little green apples and infectious disease. — Don DeLillo

A writer decides to follow some ideas and not others for reasons that aren't always clear to him. It's often a matter of intuition. — Don DeLillo

There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it. — Don DeLillo

I know it's thankless to be sensible in the face of someone's primitive distrust. — Don DeLillo

America was and is the immigrant's dream. — Don DeLillo

Popular culture is inescapable in the U.S. Why not use it? — Don DeLillo

I think if you maintain a force in the world that comes into people's sleep, you are exercising a meaningful power. — Don DeLillo

There's less and less for people to talk to when they talk to me. I hope diminishing existence isn't contagious. — Don DeLillo

DeLillo never seems committed to me to what he is writing. Very nice surfaces, but he's got nothing underneath. — Leslie Fiedler

In the middle of it all is Hitler, of course."
"He was on again last night."
"He's always on. We couldn't have television without him. — Don DeLillo

Time and death: It's the ultimate vision of an artist at the end of everything. It's just what's there. It was not something I planned to do. — Don DeLillo

People say great art is immortal. I say there's something mortal in it. It carries a glimpse of death. — 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hardship makes the world obscure. — 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I feel artificially myself. I'm someone who's supposed to be me. — Don DeLillo

Love helps us develop an identity secure enough to allow itself to be placed in another's care and protection. — Don DeLillo

A sunset is the story of the world's day. — Don DeLillo

I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs. — Don DeLillo

I have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it's enough to make me proud to be an American. — Don DeLillo

America can be saved only by what it's trying to destroy. — Don DeLillo

Everything's a scandal. Dying's a scandal. But we all do it. — Don DeLillo

Doesn't our knowledge of death make life more precious?'
What good is a preciousness based on fear and anxiety? It's an anxious quivering thing — 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

When I work I have a sculptor's sense of the shape of the words I'm making. I use a machine with larger than average letters: the bigger the better. — 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

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

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

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

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