Don DeLillo: Trending quotes (page 3)

“The more things I threw away, the more I found.”

“Sometimes a thing that's hard is hard because you're doing it wrong. (Point Omega)”

“Mirrors and images. Or sex and love. These are two separate systems that we miserably try to link.”

“Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level.”

“When he died he would not end. The world would end.”

“Money has lost its narrative quality the way painting did once upon a time. Money is talking to itself.”

“This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on the other. Technology is lust removed from nature. - Murray (WN 285)”

“Maybe when we die, the first thing we’ll say is, 'I know this feeling. I was here before.”

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

“The instant he knew he loved her, she slipped down his body and out of his arms.”

“Longing on a large scale makes history.”

“sex finds us. sex sees through us. that's why it's so shattering. it strips us of appearances."_Eric Packer”

“Some nights I need to be held. Tonight I'm a listener. So nice to lie in rumpled sheets and listen. Cover me with words.”

“That which we fear to touch is often the very fabric of our salvation.”

“The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities.”

“I feel sad for people and the queer part we play in our own distasters.”

“When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For my readers, this is sometimes a vision that's not familiar. But I'm not trying to manipulate reality. This is just what I see and hear.”

“How many beginnings before you see the lies in your excitement?”

“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.”