All Don DeLillo Quotes
- Doesn't our knowledge of death make life more precious?' What good is a preciousness based on fear and anxiety? It's an anxious quivering thing Anxiety
- Fear is unnatural. Lightning and thunder are unnatural. Pain, death, reality, these are all unnatural. We can't bear these things as they are. We know… All
- This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on the other. Technology… Appetite
- To plot is to live. […] We start out lives in chaos, in babble. As we surge up into the world, we try to devise… Affirm
- History was not a matter of missing minutes on the tape. I did not stand helpless before it. I hewed to the texture of collected… Availing
- Do people still shoot at presidents? I thought there were more stimulating targets.' (20) More
- Money has lost its narrative quality the way painting did once upon a time. Money is talking to itself. Lost
- There are dead stars that still shine because their light is trapped in time. Where do I stand in this light, which does not strictly… Dead
- Everything is barely weeks. Everything is days. We have minutes to live. Barely
- Writing is a concentrated form of thinking...a young writer sees that with words he can place himself more clearly into the world. Words on a… All
- As technology advances in complexity and scope, fear becomes more primitive. Advances
- Before pop art, there was such a thing as bad taste. Now there's kitsch, schlock, camp, and porn. Art
- Facts are lonely things Facts
- He wanted paper and something to write with, some way to sustain a thought, to place it in the world. Paper
- Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end,… All
- You have to break through the structure of your own stonework habit just to make yourself listen. Break
- The more things I threw away, the more I found. Found
- What good is knowledge if it just floats in the air? It goes from computer to computer. It changes and grows every second of every… Actually Knows
- What we are reluctant to touch often seems the very fabric of our salvation. Fabric
- [I]n the American soul there is a lonely individual standing in a vast landscape. 
He is either on a horse or driving a car, depending,… American