Don DeLillo Quotes

Don DeLillo — American Novelist born on November 20, 1936,

Donald Richard "Don" DeLillo is an American novelist, playwright and essayist. His works have covered subjects as diverse as television, nuclear war, sports, the complexities of language, performance art, the Cold War, mathematics, the advent of the digital age, politics, economics, and global terrorism. Initially a well-regarded cult writer, the publication in 1985 of White Noise brought him widespread recognition, and was followed in 1988 by Libra, a bestseller. DeLillo has twice been a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction finalist, won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Mao II in 1992, was granted the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction in 2010, and won the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction in 2013... (wikipedia)

It occured to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.

There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.

The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?

People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.

I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.