813 Quotes by Don DeLillo

It was only when I found myself writing things I didn't realise I knew that I said, 'I'm a writer now.'

The dead have a presence.

It's healthier to reject certain cautions than fall in line.

The genius of rock music is that it matched the cultural hysteria around it.

Film is more than the twentieth-century art. It's another part of the twentieth-century mind. It's the world seen from inside. We've come to a certain point in the history of film. If a thing can be filmed, the film is implied in the thing itself.

People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it.

True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in ways that writers used to aspire to.

Some people are larger than life. Hitler is larger than death.

Don't you realize that as long as you have to sit down to pee, you'll never be a dominant force in the world? You'll never be a convincing technocrat or middle manager. Because people will know. She's in there sitting down.