Quotes from 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.

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

It occured to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.

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?

A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his life in a certain way, this death is an introduction to an eternity of pain.

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.

Some people are larger than life. Hitler is larger than death.

I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.

Explain me to myself, you'll make me choke on my lunch. Feel sympathy for me, I'll puke monkey blood on your understated shoes.

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

It was important for him to believe that he'd spent his life among people who kept missing the point.

Ecology is boring for the same reason that destruction is fun.

The term itself--my life--is a desperate overstatement.

The shock, the power of an ordinary life. It is a thing you could not invent with banks of computers in a dust-free room.

I think that the massive, overarching, interconnected systems of technology tend to make us a little insecure, somewhat pliable, and susceptible to half-beliefs.

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

Technology and violence are interdependent.

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

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

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

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

People think about who they are in the stillest hour of the night. I carry this thought, the child's mystery and terror of this thought, I feel this immensity in my soul every second of my life.

Some people fake their death, I'm faking my life.

There is a set of balances and rhythms to a novel that we can't experience in real life. So I think there is a sense in which fiction can rescue history from confusion.