813 Quotes by Don DeLillo

War is the ultimate realization of modern technology.

Somehow pictures always lead to people as masses. Books belong to individuals.

You gave yourself away, word by word, every time you opened your trap to speak.

Only a catastrophe gets our attention. We want them, we depend on them. As long as they happen somewhere else. This is where California comes in. Mud slides, brush fires, coastal erosion, mass killings, et cetera. We can relax and enjoy these disasters because in our hearts we feel that California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.

Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted.

You become a serious novelist by living long enough.

A writer decides to follow some ideas and not others for reasons that aren't always clear to him. It's often a matter of intuition.

I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.

The less important you are in an office, the more they expect the happy smile.