The limiting surface of one thing is the beginning of another..

Bad things are like waves. They're going to happen to you, and there's nothing you can do about it. They're part of life, like waves are a part of th….

DeLillo never seems committed to me to what he is writing. Very nice surfaces, but he's got nothing underneath..

Never trust a shiny surface. They hide a multitude of flaws..

Vanity is but the surface..

Beyond the beauty, the sex, the titillation, the surface, there is a human being. And that has to emerge..

He will see most without who has the best eyes within; and he who only sees with his bodily organs sees but the surface..

There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point..

A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom..