Don DeLillo

Quotes

1. A poem bared the moment to things he was not normally prepared to notice.

2. 

   It is in me to hurt someone and I haven't always known this. The act and depth of writing will tell me if I'm capable.

3. 

   To know and not to act is not to know.

4. 

   But whatever the sundry facts, I'm not so different from you in your inner life in the sense that we're all uncontrollable.

5. 

   What did he want that was not posthumous? He stared into space. He understood what was missing, the predatory impulse, the sense of large excitation that drove him through his days, the sheer and reeling need to be.

6. 

   The logical extension of business is murder.

7. 

   World is supposed to mean something that's self-contained. But nothing is self-contained. Everything enters something else.

8. 

   You know what anarchists have always believed....The urge to destroy is a creative urge...This is also the hallmark of capitalist thought. Enforced destruction. Old industries have to be harshly eliminated. New markets have to be forcibly claimed. Old markets have to be re-exploited. Destroy the past, make the future.

9. 

   There are great themes running through my mind. The themes of loneliness and human discard. The theme of who do I hate when there's no one left.

10. 

    He stood in the street. There was nothing to do. He hadn't realized this could happen to him. The moment was empty of urgency and purpose. He hadn't planned on this. Where was the life he'd always led? There was nowhere he wanted to go, nothing to think about, no one waiting. How could he take a step in any direction if all directions were the same?

11. 

    "You know what capitalism produces. According to Marx and Engels."

12. 

    It's interesting to be near a man somebody wants to kill.