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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 literature has lost it's power. Great novels continue to be written, but they are no longer changing the world.
— 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
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
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
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
Let's enjoy the aimless days while we still can.
— 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
Freud is finished, Einstein's next.
— Don DeLillo
I'd like to lose interest in myself ...
— Don DeLillo
I am very unmusical. I can't carry a tune. I would never be able to play an instrument.
— 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
There's just so much time set aside for baffled reaction. I believe we've reached the limit.
— 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
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
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
America was and is the immigrant's dream.
— 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
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
You and I. We're here. So might as well.
— Don DeLillo
The half-concealed disasters that constitute a life.
— 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
World is supposed to mean something that's self-contained. but nothing is self-contained.
— Don DeLillo
He imagines they are uniformly smiling, showing the face they squeeze out with the toothpaste every morning.
— 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
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
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
