813 Quotes by Don DeLillo

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.

I marched and I protested against the war in Vietnam, along with many, many thousands of others. But I never quite understood the bombs that were placed in science labs or office buildings.

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 American soul there is a lonely individual standing in a vast landscape.

The greater the scientific advance, the more primitive the fear.

I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore.

If you know you're worth nothing, only a gamble with death can gratify your vanity.

Fame requires every kind of excess. I mean true fame, a devouring neon, not the sombre renown of waning statesmen or chinless kings.

The term itself--my life--is a desperate overstatement.