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
Don't you realize that as long as you have to sit down to pee, you'll never be a dominant force in the world? You'll never be a convincing technocrat or middle manager. Because people will know. She's in there sitting down.
As technology advances in complexity and scope, fear becomes more primitive.
If you know you're worth nothing, only a gamble with death can gratify your vanity.
I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it.
Everything that goes on in your whole life is a result of molecules rushing around somewhere in your brain.
If you reveal everything, bare every feeling, ask for understanding, you lose something crucial to your sense of yourself. You need to know things that others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.
Longing on a large scale makes history.
In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.
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.
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.
California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.
Any assault on the borders of perception is going to seem rash at first.
Perhaps we've invented conspiracies for our own psychic well-being, to heal ourselves.
Talent is more erotic when it's wasted.