813 Quotes by Don DeLillo

Everything's a scandal. Dying's a scandal. But we all do it.

Writers, some of us, may tend to see things before other people do, things that are right there but aren't noticed in the way that a writer might notice.

The family was an art ... and the dinner table was the place it found expression.

Coming and going I am leaving. I will go and come. Leaving has come to me. We all, shall all, will all be left. Because I am here and where. And I will go or not or never. And I have seen what I will see. If I am where I will be. Because nothing comes between me.

I think fiction recues history from its confusions.

The difference between the world of pictures and the world of printed matter is extraordinary and hard to define. A picture is like the masses: a multitude of impressions. A book on the other hand, with its linear advance of words and characters seems to be connected to individual identity.

There's never a dearth of reasons to shoot at the President.

I think silence is the condition you accept as the judgment on your crimes.

The shock, the power of an ordinary life. It is a thing you could not invent with banks of computers in a dust-free room.