It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be that the next novel is a big one, but I don't know. - Don DeLillo
What we are reluctant to touch often seems the very fabric of our salvation. - Don DeLillo
We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming. - Don Delillo
That which we fear to touch is often the fabric of our salvation. - Don DeLillo
I was too much of a Bronx kid to read Emerson or Hawthorne. - Don DeLillo
Doesn't seem quite real. It's not meaningful. I can't quite imagine myself being 73. That's the age my father was! [Laughter.] How can I be his age? It's weird. - Don DeLillo
Everything was fine, would continue to be fine, would eventually get even better as long as the supermarket did not slip. - Don DeLillo
Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom. - Don DeLillo
Time and death: It's the ultimate vision of an artist at the end of everything. It's just what's there. It was not something I planned to do. - Don DeLillo
Everybody wants to own the end of the world. - Don DeLillo
When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For my readers, this is sometimes a vision that's not familiar. But I'm not trying to manipulate reality. This is just what I see and hear. - Don DeLillo
I like simple men and complicated women. - Don DeLillo
We feel a private thrill, admit it, at the sight of beauty in flames. We wish to blast all the fine old things to oblivion and replace them with tasteless identicalstructures. - Don DeLillo
As technology advances in complexity and scope, fear becomes more primitive. - Don DeLillo
Too young for Korea, too old for Vietnam. - Don DeLillo
A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it. - Don DeLillo