813 Quotes by Don DeLillo

Is a cardigan what women wear when they don’t want to talk about themselves?

Sometimes it takes an entire morning to outlive a dream, to outwake a dream.

Once, probably, I used to think that vagueness was a loftier kind of poetry, truer to the depths of consciousness, and maybe when I started to read mathematics and science back in the mid-70s I found an unexpected lyricism in the necessarily precise language that scientists tend to use My instinct, my superstition is that the closer I see a thing and the more accurately I describe it, the better my chances of arriving at a certain sensuality of expression.

Mainly we looked at people in other cars, trying to work out from their faces how frightened we should be.

I don’t want to do the type of writing where I recite biography, parentage and education. I want to rise up from the words on the page and do something, hurt someone.

History is the angle at which realities meet.

Maybe this man experiences another kind of reality where he is here and there, before and after, and he moves from one to the other shatteringly, in a state of collapse, minus an identity, a language, a way to enjoy the savor of the honey-coated toast she watches him eat. She.

Shoes are like people. They adjust to situations.

I’ve always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that’s where I belong, that’s where my work belongs.