Don DeLillo Quotes

I suddenly find out that I'm 60, and I get shocked by the number, because I feel like I'm 20.

Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.

I definitely don't consider myself a kid anymore. I feel like an old man, an old 28-year-old.

The fact was I didn't want to look my age, but I didn't want to act the age I wanted to look either. I also wanted to grow old enough to understand that sentence.

I'd like to show how 'intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members' connects with 'the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age.

I have no history but the length of my bones.

It's interesting when you're in your thirties and you're not the same pretty boy that you were when you were 21. I think people's anger at themselves getting older is projected on to you because you become a symbol of that.

Sometimes when I look in the mirror, I see a child, then I look and see a woman who should be turning 60.

You get older and you see yourself and say, 'God, he's old, who's that?'

What interested me, was that as we age, those seemingly unbreakable barriers that define us, our gender, they begin to crack, to blur; they're not absolutes anymore.

Sometimes I'll watch teenagers and find myself not quite believing I'm older than they are - even wondering, delusionally, if they can see any difference between us.

In your twenties, you think you are immortal. In your thirties, you hope you are immortal.

You picture yourself as being 22 always, and so it's very bizarre when you're not.

I think all men when they get older, they look at the mirror and they probably see their father a little bit.

When you are five, you know your age down to the month. Even in your twenties, you know how old you are. I'm twenty-three you say, or maybe twenty-seven. But then in your thirties, something strange starts to happen. It is a mere hiccup at first, an instant of hesitation. How old are you? Oh, I'm--you start confidently, but then you stop. You were going to say thirty-three, but you are not. You're thirty-five. And then you're bothered, because you wonder if this is the beginning of the end. It is, of course, but it's decades before you admit it.

If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being a grown-up is about learning how to die.

When you're 20, you can't imagine being 30. When you're 30, you can't imagine being 40. When you're 40, you can't imagine being 100.

Time is the enemy of identity

I'm never overawed by a situation and I think that's because I've always looked several years older than I am. So because people were treating me like I was 40 when I was 29, I've always felt in control of a situation. People used to say, when you're 32, you'll look 32. I'm still waiting for that moment, where my age catches up with my appearance.

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

I recently turned 60. Practically a third of my life is over.

We all grasp on to a single idea of ourselves, the way aging people dye their hair. It’s no matter that this dye doesn’t fool you. My lady, you don’t dye your hair to decieve other people, or to fool yourself, but rather to cheat your image in your mirror a little.

Of late I appear To have reached that stage When people who look old Who are only my age.

This is what forty looks like. We've been lying so long, who would know?

If I just stuck to pot I might have found out what a drag being an aging hipster actually was.