813 Quotes by Don DeLillo

He thinks he's happy but it's just a nerve cell in his brain that's getting too much stimulation or too little stimulation.

Maybe when we die, the first thing we'll say is 'I know this feeling. I was here before'.

We feel certain that the extraterrestrial message is a mathematical code of some kind. Probably a number code. Mathematics is the one language we might conceivably have in common with other forms of intelligent life in the universe. As I understand it, there is no reality more independent of our perception and more true to itself than mathematical reality.

A person rises on a word and falls on a syllable.

Everything I've stated may prove to be total poppycock.... Perhaps time will tell. Perhaps time will do nothing of the kind.

In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.

You live in a tower that soars to heaven and goes unpunished by God.

Digital clocks took the 'space' out of time.

In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he aspires to madness. Some have made it, of course, and they hold special places in our regard. To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.