813 Quotes by Don DeLillo

Transient pleasures, drastic measures.

When hell fills up, the dead will walk the streets.

When my head is in the typewriter the last thing on my mind is some imaginary reader. I don’t have an audience; I have a set of standards.

To weigh three hundred pounds. What devout vulgarity. It seemed a worthwhile goal for prospective saints and flagellants. The new asceticism. All the visionary possibilities of the fast. To feed on the plants and animals of earth. To expand and wallow. I cherished his size, the formlessness of it, the sheer vulgar pleasure, his sense of being overwritten prose. Somehow it was the opposite of death.

Digital clocks took the ‘space’ out of time.

I like old movies on television where a man lights a woman’s cigarette. That’s all they seemed to do in those old movies, the men and women. I’m normally so totally disregardless. But every time I see an old movie on television, I keep a sharp eye out for a man lighting a woman’s cigarette.

The game doesn’t change the way you sleep or wash your face or chew your food. It changes nothing but your life.

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

What about the Americans?” “Eerie people. Genetically engineered to play squash and work weekends.