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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
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
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
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
In the dark the mind runs on like a devouring machine, the only thing awake in the universe.
— 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
California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.
— Don DeLillo
Decorative gestures add romance to a life.
— 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
Facts are lonely things
— 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
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
I want to immerse myself in American magic and dread.
— Don DeLillo
When times are bad, people feel compelled to overeat.
— Don DeLillo
I like simple men and complicated women.
— 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
World is supposed to mean something that's self-contained. but nothing is self-contained.
— 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
A band played live Muzak.
— 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
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
Every act he performed was self-haunted and synthetic.
— 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
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
Everything I've stated may prove to be total poppycock ... Perhaps time will tell. Perhaps time will do nothing of the kind.
— Don DeLillo
