Don DeLillo, Mao II Quotes

I used to think it was possible for an artist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory.

The letters released something, maybe a sense that he was not alone, that the world was a place where travelers in language could know the same things.

When a writer doesn’t show his face, he becomes a local symptom of God’s famous reluctance to appear.