Quote

Sex finds us. Sex sees through us. That's why it's so shattering. It strips us of appearances.

Don DeLillo

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Don DeLillo
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
Appearance
Sex
Strips
Shattering
Appearances
Finds
Sees

More quotes by Don DeLillo

Image
Writers, some of us, may tend to see things before other people do, things that are right there but aren't noticed in the way that a writer might notice.
Don DeLillo
Image
People in free societies don't have to fear the pathology of the state. We create our own frenzy, our own mass convulsions, driven by thinking machines that we have no final authority over. The frenzy is barely noticeable most of the time. It's simply how we live.
Don DeLillo
Image
I see contemporary violence as a kind of sardonic response to the promise of consumer fulfilment in America.
Don DeLillo
Image
Everyone who does not live in Berlin lives in Brooklyn now.
Don DeLillo
Image
What we are reluctant to touch often seems the very fabric of our salvation.
Don DeLillo
Image
I didn’t do anything. I don’t have an explanation, I don’t know why I wanted to write. I did some short stories at that time, but very infrequently. I quit my job just to quit. I didn’t quit my job to write fiction. I just didn’t want to work anymore
Don DeLillo
Image
The greater the scientific advance, the more primitive the fear.
Don DeLillo
Image
Sometimes I see something so moving I know I’m not supposed to linger. See it and leave. If you stay too long, you wear out the wordless shock. Love it and trust it and leave.
Don DeLillo
Image
Money has lost its narrative quality the way painting did once upon a time. Money is talking to itself.
Don DeLillo
Image
the instant he knew he loved her, she slipped down his body and out of his arms
Don DeLillo
Image
A photograph is a universe of dots. The grain, the halide, the little silver things clumped in the emulsion. Once you get inside a dot, you gain access to hidden information, you slide into the smallest event. This is what technology does. It peels back the shadows and redeems the dazed and rumbling past. It makes reality come true.
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
There is a world inside the world.
Don DeLillo
Image
I am not comfortable with abstract writing, stories that look like essays: you have to see, I need to see.
Don DeLillo
Image
She became confused when she stepped onto an escalator that wasn't working.
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
Isn't death the boundary we need? Doesn't it give a precious texture to life, a sense of definition? You have to ask yourself whether anything you do in this life would have beauty and meaning without the knowledge you carry of a final line, a border or limit.
Don DeLillo
Image
I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it.
Don DeLillo
Image
A dead afternoon in a dark bar was not the worst of fates.
Don DeLillo
Image
Technology and violence are interdependent.
Don DeLillo