“ People say great art is immortal. I say there's something mortal in it. It carries a glimpse of death. Don DeLillo
“ Mirrors and images. Or sex and love. These are two separate systems that we miserably try to link. Don DeLillo
“ If we isolate the stray thought, the passing thought, he said, the thought whose origin is unfathomable, then we begin to understand that we are routinely deranged, everyday crazy. Don DeLillo
“ I would think of it with affection because of its scenes of fragmentary beauty, because it brought men closer together through their perversity and fear, because it enabled us to pretend that death co… Don DeLillo
“ I saw a group of women standing by a station wagon. There were seven of them, pushing cartons and shopping bags over the open tailgate into the rear of the car. Celery stalks and boxes of Gleem stuck… Don DeLillo
“ Before I fell asleep, eventually, was thinking when I was a small kid how I'd try to imagine the end of the century and what a far-off wonder that was and I'd figure out how old I'd be when the centur… Don DeLillo
“ A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it. Don DeLillo
“ How strange it is. We have these deep terrible lingering fears about ourselves and the people we love. Yet we walk around, talk to people, eat and drink. We manage to function. The feelings are deep a… Don DeLillo
“ I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language. Don DeLillo
“ Within sixty-minute limits or one-hundred-yard limits or the limits of a game board, we can look for perfect moments or perfect structures. In my fiction I think this search sometimes turns out to be… Don DeLillo
