813 Quotes by Don DeLillo

Everything that goes on in your whole life is a result of molecules rushing around somewhere in your brain.

He said, "The word for moonlight is moonlight.

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 a crisis the true facts are whatever other people say they are.

If you reveal everything, bare every feeling, ask for understanding, you lose something crucial to your sense of yourself. You need to know things that others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.

People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.

Man's guilt in history and in the tides of his own blood has been complicated by technology, the daily seeping falsehearted death.

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

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