All Don DeLillo Quotes
- People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power. Arrangements
- People who are powerless make an open theater of violence. Open
- Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies. Act
- American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous. American
- I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else. Documentaries
- Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work. Cunning
- The future belongs to crowds. Belongs
- A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his life in a certain way,… Any
- The greater the scientific advance, the more primitive the fear. Advance
- California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom. Alone
- These are the days after. Everything now is measured by after. Days
- The term itself--my life--is a desperate overstatement. Desperate
- Off-camera lives are unverifiable. Camera
- I don’t want your candor. I want your soul in a silver thimble. Candor
- Explain me to myself, you’ll make me choke on my lunch. Feel sympathy for me, I’ll puke monkey blood on your understated shoes. Blood
- He said, "The word for moonlight is moonlight. Inspirational
- The power of the dead is that we think they see us all the time. The dead have a presence. Is there a level of… All
- No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know… Animal
- When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go,… Age
- I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it. Death