31 quotes
War is the ultimate realization of modern technology.
End Zone (1972)
I'm a novelist, period. An American novelist.
When a writer doesn't show his face, he becomes a local symptom of God's famous reluctance to appear.
Mao II (1991)
I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.
The Names (1982)
"Remember literature, Charlie? It involved getting drunk and getting laid."
Mao II (1991)
In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.
"Stories have no point if they don't absorb our terror."
Mao II (1991)
I want to immerse myself in American magic and dread.
White Noise (1984)
I heard a noise, faint, monotonous, white.
White Noise (1984)
I think what'll happen in the not-too-distant future is that we'll have humane wars.
End Zone (1972)
All plots tend to move deathwards. This is the nature of plots.
White Noise (1984)
Every disaster made us wish for something bigger, grander, more sweeping.
White Noise (1984)
I think fiction rescues history from its confusions.
To become a crowd is to keep out death.
White Noise (1984)
Evil is movement towards void.
Great Jones Street (1974)
Popular culture is inescapable in the U.S. Why not use it?
I am not particularly distressed by the state of fiction or the role of the writer. The more marginal, perhaps ultimately the more trenchant and observant and finally necessary he'll become.
I reject the notion of football as warfare. Warfare is warfare. We don't need substitutes because we've got the real thing.
End Zone (1972)
He thinks he's happy but it's just a nerve cell in his brain that's getting too much stimulation or too little stimulation.
White Noise (1984)
The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities.
White Noise (1984)