Quotes About Don DeLillo

A lot of the fiction I read growing up was post-war American, and not all of it centers on Manhattan, but around people of the Mad Men generation, people like John Cheever and, in more modern times, Don DeLillo, who I always mention.

You know what you did? You embraced the insanity you were telling us about. – Don DeLillo, Great Jones Street

Most American writers don't get asked their opinion on current affairs, whereas in Europe and England, we still do. There are writers here who are the most sophisticated commentators, but they're not asked. Like Don DeLillo, who sort of forecast most of the modern world before it happened.

Rushdie is a hostage.

I used to think it was possible for an artist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory.

To portray America over the past twenty years or so, I would think immediately of football, probably the Super Bowl in its sumptuous suggestion of a national death wish.

Prayer is a practical strategy, the gaining of temporal advantage in the capital markets of Sin and Remission.

Because we're suffering from brain fade. We need an occasional catastrophe to break up the incessant bombardment of information.

It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be that the next novel is a big one, but I don't know.

And I knew with total certainty that a protection factor of fifteen was the highest level of sunblock scientifically possible. Now they were selling me a thirty.

I like your mother. You have your mother's breasts. Her breasts. Great stand-up tits. he said

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

At breakfast, Babette read all our horoscopes aloud, using her storytelling voice. I tried not to listen when she got to mine, although I think I wanted to listen, I think I sought some clues.

She means everything literally. Don't kid yourself about that lady. She means everything literally.

The novel is a fucking killer. I try to show it every respect.

Even at a distance, her mouth showed the small pursed conceit of a remark in the making.

He was a regulator first-class, which was another term for metalworker unskilled.

He said, The word for moonlight is moonlight. This made her happy. It was logically complex and oddly moving and circularly beautiful and true - or maybe not so circular but straight as straight can be.

La preghiera è una strategia pratica, la conquista di un vantaggio temporale nei mercati capitali del Peccato e della Remissione.

What if death is nothing but sound?" "Electrical noise." "You hear it forever. Sound all around. How awful." "Uniform, white." -Jack Gladney

I followed him into the supermarket. Blasts of color, layers of oceanic sound. We walked under a bright banner announcing a raffle to raise money for some incurable disease. The wording seemed to indicate that the winner would get the disease. Murray likened the banner to a Tibetan prayer flag.

That's my argument exactly. Fangs. Snakebite. Fifty thousand people a year die of snakebite. it was on television last night.' 'Everything was on television last night.,' Orest said.

Why does this make you proud to be an American?" "The infant's brain develops in response to stimuli. We still lead the world in stimuli.

He and Kennedy were partners. The figure of the gunman in the window was inextricable from the victim and his history.