Quote

I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.

Don DeLillo

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Don DeLillo
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
Book
Come
Think
Hardcover
Thinking
Paperback
Version
Versions
Europe
America

More quotes by Don DeLillo

Image
The force of a death should be enormous but how can you know what kind of man you've killed or who was the braver and stronger if you have to peer through layers of glass that deliver the image but obscure the meaning of the act? War has a conscience or it's ordinary murder.
Don DeLillo
Image
A shrewd person would one day start a religion based on coincidence, if he hasn't already, and make a million.
Don DeLillo
Image
I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.
Don DeLillo
Image
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
Image
In these night recitations we create a space between things as we felt them at the time and as we speak them now. This is the space reserved for irony, sympathy and fond amusement, the means by which we rescue ourselves from the past.
Don DeLillo
Image
There are times when you want to stop working at faith and just be washed in a blowing wind that tells you everything.
Don DeLillo
Image
I marched and I protested against the war in Vietnam, along with many, many thousands of others. But I never quite understood the bombs that were placed in science labs or office buildings.
Don DeLillo
Image
Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope.
Don DeLillo
Image
Everything I've stated may prove to be total poppycock.... Perhaps time will tell. Perhaps time will do nothing of the kind.
Don DeLillo
Image
Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.
Don DeLillo
Image
Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted.
Don DeLillo
Image
Coming and going I am leaving. I will go and come. Leaving has come to me. We all, shall all, will all be left. Because I am here and where. And I will go or not or never. And I have seen what I will see. If I am where I will be. Because nothing comes between me.
Don DeLillo
Image
Everything that goes on in your whole life is a result of molecules rushing around somewhere in your brain.
Don DeLillo
Image
The family was an art ... and the dinner table was the place it found expression.
Don DeLillo
Image
Off-camera lives are unverifiable.
Don DeLillo
Image
The writer is driven by his conviction that some truths aren't arrived at so easily, that life is still full of mystery, that it might be better for you, Dear Reader, if you went back to the Living section of your newspaper because this is the dying section and you don't really want to be here.
Don DeLillo
Image
To be a tourist is to escape accountability.
Don DeLillo
Image
In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he aspires to madness. Some have made it, of course, and they hold special places in our regard. To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.
Don DeLillo
Image
All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots.
Don DeLillo
Image
The power of the dead is that we think they see us all the time. The dead have a presence. Is there a level of energy composed solely of the dead? They are also in the ground, of course, asleep and crumbling. Perhaps we are what they dream.
Don DeLillo