A biography for Don DeLillohasn’t been written yet.
“When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.”
“The power of the dead is that we think they see us all the time. The dead have a presence. Is there a level of energy composed solely of the dead? They are also in the ground, of course, asleep and crumbling. Perhaps we are what they dream.”
“The future belongs to crowds.”
“May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan.”
“A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his life in a certain way, this death is an introduction to an eternity of pain.”
“One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language.”
“It occured to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.”