Quotes By Don DeLillo

Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted.

There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.

Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.

May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan.

The future belongs to crowds.

For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the whole picture, the whole culture.

The language of my books has shaped me as a man.

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

Rushdie is a hostage.

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.

One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language.

The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?

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