Delillo

Famous quotes containing the word delillo:

    Don’t you realize that as long as you have to sit down to pee, you’ll never be a dominant force in the world? You’ll never be a convincing technocrat or middle manager. Because people will know. She’s in there sitting down.
    —Don Delillo (b. 1926)

    In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he aspires to madness. Some have made it, of course, and they hold special places in our regard. To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It’s the drowning out of false voices.
    —Don Delillo (b. 1926)

    Hardship makes the world obscure.
    —Don Delillo (b. 1926)