Don DeLillo

The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#life #speech #words #writing #life

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. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#culture #guns #war #life

why something and not nothing? why music and not noise? ↗

— Don DeLillo

#don-delillo #music

Was she naked?" Lasher said. "To the waist," Cotsakis said. "From which direction?" Lasher said. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#humor

When birds look into houses, what impossible worlds they see. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#metaphor #the-body-artist #inspirational

Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#fear #humorous-truism #self-awareness #humor

That's the world out there, little green apples and infectious disease. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#good-and-evil #humanity #infectious-diseases #summary #ugliness

Doesn't seem quite real. It's not meaningful. I can't quite imagine myself being 73. That's the age my father was! [Laughter.] How can I be his age? It's weird. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#ageing #fathers #robert-mccrum #weirdness #age

Time and death: It's the ultimate vision of an artist at the end of everything. It's just what's there. It was not something I planned to do. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#artistic-vision #artists #death #literature #robert-mccrum

You could put your faith in technology. It got you here, it can get you out" - Murray (WN 285). ↗

— Don DeLillo

#faith