Don DeLillo Quotes

...Because what's the meaning of doing dishes if you're not driven by something beyond necessity.

The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever.

There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.

First you look for discipline and control. You want to exercise your will, bend the language your way, bend the world your way. You want to control the flow of impulses, images, words, faces, ideas. But there's a higher place, a secret aspiration. You want to let go. You want to lose yourself in language, become a carrier or messenger.

The world is shrinking into a kind of technological funnel. I think people are drawn into their technological devices, and this becomes a kind of subjective universe, into which much of the rest of the world simply does not enter.

Say heat. Say wet between my legs. Say legs. Seriously, I want you to. Stockings. Whisper it. The word is meant to be whispered.

Even when you self-destruct, you want to fail more, lose more, die more than others, stink more than others.