813 Quotes by Don DeLillo

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.

Technology is lust removed from nature.

Past, present and future are not amenities of language. Time unfolds into the seamsof being. It passes through you, making and shaping.

I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.

Clouds are no deterrent. Clouds intensify the drama, trap and shape the light.

It is so much simpler to bury reality than it is to dispose of dreams

Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.

I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence.

Your brain has a trillion neurons and every neuron has ten thousand little dendrites. The system of inter-communication is awe-inspiring.