813 Quotes by Don DeLillo

It is interesting ... how weapons reflect the soul of the maker.

I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood.

Rushdie is a hostage.

Sex finds us. Sex sees through us. That's why it's so shattering. It strips us of appearances.

Fame and secrecy are the high and low ends of the same fascination.

Famous people don't want to be told that you have a quality in common with them. It makes them think there's something crawling in their clothes.

The future is always a wholeness, a sameness. We're all tall and happy there,' she said. 'This is why the future fails. It always fails. It can never be the cruel happy place we want to make it.

Not long ago, a novelist could believe he could have an effect on our consciousness of terror. Today, the men who shape and inflence human consciousness are the terrorists.

All who have their reward on Earth, the fruits Of painful superstition and blind zeal, Naught seeking but the praise of men, here find Fit retribution, empty as their deeds.