I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next. Don DeLillo More Quotes by Don DeLillo More Quotes From Don DeLillo [I]n the American soul there is a lonely individual standing in a vast landscape. He is either on a horse or driving a car, depending, and either way he’s carrying a gun. This is one of the essential images in American mythology. Don DeLillo horse gun lonely Everything is barely weeks. Everything is days. We have minutes to live. Don DeLillo week minutes American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous. Don DeLillo bedtime dangerous reality I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else. Don DeLillo watch-movie documentaries watches Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work. Don DeLillo silence literature ideas The future belongs to crowds. Don DeLillo crowds future literature A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his life in a certain way, this death is an introduction to an eternity of pain. Don DeLillo catholic pain ideas The greater the scientific advance, the more primitive the fear. Don DeLillo white-noise primitive greater The term itself--my life--is a desperate overstatement. Don DeLillo desperate term life-is Off-camera lives are unverifiable. Don DeLillo cameras Explain me to myself, you’ll make me choke on my lunch. Feel sympathy for me, I’ll puke monkey blood on your understated shoes. Don DeLillo shoes lunch blood He said, "The word for moonlight is moonlight. Don DeLillo moonlight said 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 energy dream thinking When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numbers is never more evident than when we use them to speculate on the time of our dying. Don DeLillo death years thinking Doesn't our knowledge of death make life more precious?' What good is a preciousness based on fear and anxiety? It's an anxious quivering thing Don DeLillo anxiety anxious This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on the other. Technology is lust removed from nature. - Murray (WN 285) Don DeLillo technology lust hands Do people still shoot at presidents? I thought there were more stimulating targets.' (20) Don DeLillo target president people Money has lost its narrative quality the way painting did once upon a time. Money is talking to itself. Don DeLillo quality once-upon-a-time talking There are dead stars that still shine because their light is trapped in time. Where do I stand in this light, which does not strictly exist? (155) Don DeLillo stars shining light Eye contact was a delicate matter. A quarter second of a shared glance was a violation of agreements that made the city operational. Don DeLillo eye cities agreement