813 Quotes by Don DeLillo

We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming.

Prayer is a practical strategy, the gaining of temporal advantage in the capital markets of Sin and Remission.

Words are not necessary to one's experience of the true life.

Was she naked?" Lasher said. "To the waist," Cotsakis said. "From which direction?" Lasher said.

People say great art is immortal. I say there's something mortal in it. It carries a glimpse of death.

I think my work is influenced by the fact that we're living in dangerous times. If I could put it in a sentence, in fact, my work is about just that: living in dangerous times.

The novel is the dream release, the suspension of reality that history needs to escape its own brutal confinements.

To be a tourist is to escape accountability.

The language of my books has shaped me as a man.