Don DeLillo

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

— Don DeLillo

#eureka-moments #nature #peace #self-knowledge #beauty

I like simple men and complicated women. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#women #men

We are not native. We have no generations of Americans behind us. We have roots elsewhere. We are looking in from the outside. To me, that seems to be perfectly natural. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#americans #paul-auster #philip-roth #robert-mccrum #nature

There was something touching about the fact that Murray was dressed almost totally in corduroy. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#humor #beauty

We must be equal to the largeness of things. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#equality

The family is the cradle of the world"s misinformation. There must be something in family life that generates factual error. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#family #information #knowledge #family

Man’s guilt in history and in the tides of his own blood has been complicated by technology, the daily seeping falsehearted death. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#existence #inevitable-progress #inverse-tower-of-babel #death

It was not Death that stood before me but only Vernon Dickey, my father-in-law. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#death

This is death. I don't want it to tarry awhile so I can write a monograph. I want it to go away for seventy or eighty years. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#long-life #monograph #time #death

That night, after the movie, driving my father's car along the country roads, I began to wonder ho real the landscape truly was, and how much of a dream is a dream. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#driving #dreams