Don DeLillo: Trending quotes (page 2)

“Talent is more erotic when it's wasted.”

“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.”

“What good is knowledge if it just floats in the air? It goes from computer to computer. It changes and grows every second of every day. But nobody actually knows anything.”

“Everything is barely weeks. Everything is days. We have minutes to live.”

“It is so much simpler to bury reality than it is to dispose of dreams”

“You need to know things the others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.”

“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”

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

“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.”

“Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals.”

“I'm not reclusive at all. Just private.”

“I don’t want your candor. I want your soul in a silver thimble.”

“A person rises on a word and falls on a syllable.”

“These are the days after. Everything now is measured by after.”

“When birds look into houses, what impossible worlds they see.”

“American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.”

“Why is it so hard to be serious, so easy to be too serious?”

“Let's enjoy the aimless days while we still can.”

“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.”