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 More Quotes by Don DeLillo More Quotes From Don DeLillo 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 dyingwantmight Past, present and future are not amenities of language. Time unfolds into the seamsof being. It passes through you, making and shaping. Don DeLillo amenitieslanguagepast When I work I have a sculptor's sense of the shape of the words I'm making. I use a machine with larger than average letters: the bigger the better. Don DeLillo machinesuseaverage He took pains to avoid self-depreciation, self-mockery, ambiguity, irony, subtlety, vulnerability, a civilized world-weariness and a tragic sense of history--the very things, he says, that are most natural to him. Don DeLillo painselfworld At night the sky was very near, sprawled in star smoke and gamma cataclysms, but she didn't see it the way she used to, as soul extension, dumb guttural wonder, a thing that lived outside language in the oldest part of her. Don DeLillo starsskynight Somehow pictures always lead to people as masses. Books belong to individuals. Don DeLillo individualbookpeople There are two categories of writers, it could be said: The author who is just a voice, and the one who is also creating a picture. I belong to the latter, because I have an acute visual sense. Don DeLillo creatingvoicetwo I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next. Don DeLillo ashamednext Dying was just an extended version of Ash Wednesday. Don DeLillo ashesdyingdeath We feel certain that the extraterrestrial message is a mathematical code of some kind. Probably a number code. Mathematics is the one language we might conceivably have in common with other forms of intelligent life in the universe. As I understand it, there is no reality more independent of our perception and more true to itself than mathematical reality. Don DeLillo independentintelligentreality 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 leftleavingifs There is a balance, a kind of standoff between the time continuum and the human entity, our frail bundle of soma and psyche. We eventually succumb to time, it's true, but time depends on us. We carry it in our muscles and genes, pass it on to the next set of time-factoring creatures, our brown-eyed daughters and jug-eared sons, or how would the world keep going. Never mind the time theorists, the cesium devices that measure the life and death of the smallest silvery trillionth of a second.... We were the only crucial clocks, our minds and bodies, way stations for the distribution of time. Don DeLillo daughtertimeson I was always younger than anyone around me. One day it began to change. Don DeLillo one-day There is a world inside the world. Don DeLillo world It is possible to be homesick for a place even when you are there. Don DeLillo homesick Everything's a scandal. Dying's a scandal. But we all do it. Don DeLillo scandaldying I think fiction recues history from its confusions. Don DeLillo confusionfictionthinking You feel sorry for yourself. You think you're missing something and you don't know what it is. You're lonely inside your life. You have a job and a family and a fully executed will, already, at your age, because the whole point is to die prepared, die legal, with all the papers signed. Die liquid, so they can convert to cash. Don DeLillo lonelyjobsdeath I think silence is the condition you accept as the judgment on your crimes. Don DeLillo judgmentsilencethinking Hardship makes the world obscure. Don DeLillo obscurehardshipworld
