Don DeLillo Quotes


Bloomberg weighed three hundred pounds. This itself was historical. I revered his weight. It was an affirmation of humanity's reckless potential; it went beyond legend and returned through mist to the lovely folly of history. To weigh three hundred pounds. What devout vulgarity.


Citations

DeLillo, Don. End Zone. Houghton Mifflin, 1972, p. 44.

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Don DeLillo
Don DeLillo
  • Born: November 20, 1936
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Novelist

Donald Richard DeLillo is an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, screenwriter and essayist. His works have covered subjects as diverse as television, nuclear war, sports, the complexities of language, performance art, the Cold War, mathematics, the advent of the digital age, politics, economics, and global terrorism.