Don DeLillo Quotes - Page 2

The view is endlessly fulfilling. It is like the answer to a lifetime of questions and vague cravings.

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.

Too young for Korea, too old for Vietnam.

I'm completely aware of Matisse and what he said, that painters must begin by cutting out their tongues.

A photograph is a universe of dots. The grain, the halide, the little silver things clumped in the emulsion. Once you get inside a dot, you gain access to hidden information, you slide into the smallest event. This is what technology does. It peels back the shadows and redeems the dazed and rumbling past. It makes reality come true.

She was a voice with a body as afterthought, a wry smile that sailed through heavy traffic. Give her a history and she'd disappear.

Eric Packer about Vija Kinski

Why are free spirits always so fucking dumb?

Think of the great poetry, the music and dance and ritual that spring forth from our aspiring to a life beyond death. Maybe these things are justification enough for our hopes and dreams, although I wouldn't say that to a dying man.

Make no mistake. I take these children seriously. It is not possible to see too much in them, to overindulge your causal gift for the study of character. It is all there, in full force, charged waves of identity and being. There are no amateurs in the world of children

Cities were built to measure time, to remove time from nature. There’s an endless counting down, he said. When you strip away all the surfaces, when you see into it, what’s left is terror. This is the thing that literature was meant to cure.

California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.

Then they’re always trying to sell you something. Everything is based on forcing people to buy. If you can’t buy what they’re selling, you’re a zero in the system.

I like simple men and complicated women.

Everything was fine, would continue to be fine, would eventually get even better as long as the supermarket did not slip.