813 Quotes by Don DeLillo

Why are homosexuals addicted to soap opera? Because our lives are a vivid situation.

Insanity's so personal. It's hard to know who shares our secrets.

It's true that some of us become better writers by living long enough. But this is also how we become worse writers. The trick is to die in between.

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

Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us.

If the world is where we hide from ourselves, what do we do when the world is no longer accessible? We invent a false name, invent a destiny, purchase a firearm through the mail.

I long for the days of disorder. I want them back, the days when I was alive on the earth, rippling in the quick of my skin, heedless and real. I was dumb-muscled and angry and real. This is what I long for, the breach of peace, the days of disarray when I walked real streets and did things slap-bang and felt angry and ready all the time, a danger to others and a distant mystery to myself.

I am not comfortable with abstract writing, stories that look like essays: you have to see, I need to see.

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.