813 Quotes by Don DeLillo

Time is a corporate asset now. It belongs to the free market system. The present is harder to find... The future becomes insistent.

Isn't death the boundary we need? Doesn't it give a precious texture to life, a sense of definition? You have to ask yourself whether anything you do in this life would have beauty and meaning without the knowledge you carry of a final line, a border or limit.

These are the days after. Everything now is measured by after.

For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

The genius of the primitive mind is that it can render human helplessness in noble and beautiful ways.

Too much has been forgotten in the name of memory.

There is a world inside the world.

Thousands stand and chant. Around them in the world, people ride escalators going up and sneak secret glances at the faces coming down. People dangle teabags over hot water in white cups. Cars run silently on the autobahns, streaks of painted light. People sit at desks and stare at office walls. They smell their shirts and drop them in the hamper. People bind themselves into numbered seats and fly across time zones and high cirrus and deep night, knowing there is something they've forgotten to do.

If an idea seems to find its way towards a stage setting, that's the direction I take. I don't know if I'm trying to achieve anything other than to follow an idea on to the page.