Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted. Don DeLillo Read Quote
There’s always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down. Don DeLillo Read Quote
The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence. Don DeLillo Read Quote
Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That’s why so many of them are in jail. Don DeLillo Read Quote
Silence, exile, cunning and so on… it’s my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work. Don DeLillo Read Quote
If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely. Don DeLillo Read Quote
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? Don DeLillo Read Quote
I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism. Don DeLillo Read Quote