Quote

I understand there are some men who are only half here. Let's not say men. Let's say people. People who are more or less obscure at times.

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
Less
Times
Understand
Men
People
Obscure
Half

More quotes by Don DeLillo

Image
American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.
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
Fame and secrecy are the high and low ends of the same fascination.
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
To be a tourist is to escape accountability. Errors and failings don't cling to you the way they do back home. You're able to drift across continents and languages, suspending the operation of sound thought. Tourism is the march of stupidity.
Don DeLillo
Image
How many beginnings before you see the lies in your excitement?
Don DeLillo
Image
To be a tourist is to escape accountability.
Don DeLillo
Image
It's healthier to reject certain cautions than fall in line.
Don DeLillo
Image
It is all falling indelibly into the past.
Don DeLillo
Image
Ask yourself this question. Do we have to be humans forever? Consciousness is exhausted. Back now to inorganic matter. This is what we want. We want to be stones in a field.
Don DeLillo
Image
What we are reluctant to touch often seems the very fabric of our salvation.
Don DeLillo
Image
... there was an honesty inherent in bulkiness if it is just the right amount.
Don DeLillo
Image
Pain is just another form of information.
Don DeLillo
Image
It was important for him to believe that he'd spent his life among people who kept missing the point.
Don DeLillo
Image
A writer decides to follow some ideas and not others for reasons that aren't always clear to him. It's often a matter of intuition.
Don DeLillo
Image
Making things difficult for the reader is less an attack on the reader than it is on the age and its facile knowledge-market.
Don DeLillo
Image
I see contemporary violence as a kind of sardonic response to the promise of consumer fulfilment in America.
Don DeLillo
Image
Fear is unnatural. Lightning and thunder are unnatural. Pain, death, reality, these are all unnatural. We can't bear these things as they are. We know too much. So we resort to repression, compromise and disguise. This is how we survive the universe. This is the natural language of the species.
Don DeLillo
Image
The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation.
Don DeLillo
Image
Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us.
Don DeLillo