Quotes By Don DeLillo

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.

I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood.

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

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

I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence.

There's never a dearth of reasons to shoot at the President.

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

America was and is the immigrant's dream.

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