Don DeLillo
Don DeLillo
Donald Richard "Don" DeLillois an American novelist, playwright and essayist. His works have covered subjects as diverse as television, nuclear war, sports, the complexities of language, performance art, the Cold War, mathematics, the advent of the digital age, politics, economics, and global terrorism. Initially a well-regarded cult writer, the publication in 1985 of White Noise brought him widespread recognition. It was followed in 1988 by Libra, a bestseller. DeLillo has twice been a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction finalist), won the...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth20 November 1936
CityBronx, NY
He'd once told me that the art of getting ahead in New York was based on learning how to express dissatisfaction in an interesting way. The air was full of rage and complaint. People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it.
It is so much simpler to bury reality than it is to dispose of dreams
Freud is finished, Einstein's next.
When he died he would not end. The world would end.
days like this. i look at you and feel electric. tell me you don't feel it too."_Eric Packer
why something and not nothing? why music and not noise?
World is supposed to mean something that's self-contained. but nothing is self-contained.
holes are interesting. there are books about holes.
The smoke alarm went off in the hallway upstairs, either to let us know the battery had just died or because the house was on fire.
The power of the dead is that we think they see us all the time. The dead have a presence. Is there a level of energy composed solely of the dead? They are also in the ground, of course, asleep and crumbling. Perhaps we are what they dream.
Isn't death the boundary we need? Doesn't it give a precious texture to life, a sense of definition? You have to ask yourself whether anything you do in this life would have beauty and meaning without the knowledge you carry of a final line, a border or limit.
There is a world inside the world.
Prayer is a practical strategy, the gaining of temporal advantage in the capital markets of Sin and Remission.
Was she naked?" Lasher said. "To the waist," Cotsakis said. "From which direction?" Lasher said.