Quotes By Don DeLillo

People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.

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, this death is an introduction to an eternity of pain.

Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail.

I think a playwright realizes after he finishes working on the script that this is only the beginning. What will happen when it moves into three dimensions?

I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what they mean, but even what they look like.

In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.

Hardship makes the world obscure.

There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.

I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.

When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.

There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.

Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.

I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs.

The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.

I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.