813 Quotes by Don DeLillo

The music I like best is kind of frozen in my mind from the Sixties and Seventies. I still listen to the same jazz music I listened to when I was eighteen years old, and like and admire it just as much.

To portray America over the past twenty years or so, I would think immediately of football, probably the Super Bowl in its sumptuous suggestion of a national death wish.

Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world.

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

In this country there is a universal third person, the man we all want to be. Advertising has discovered this man. It uses him to express the possibilities open to the consumer. To consume in America is not to buy; it is to dream. Advertising is the suggestion that the dream of entering the third person singular might possibly be fulfilled.

Something is always happening, even on the quietest days and deep into the night, if you stand a while and look.

At night the sky was very near, sprawled in star smoke and gamma cataclysms, but she didn't see it the way she used to, as soul extension, dumb guttural wonder, a thing that lived outside language in the oldest part of her.

I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.

Writing is a concentrated form of thinking.