813 Quotes by Don DeLillo

It is possible to be homesick for a place even when you are there.

To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.

I was always younger than anyone around me. One day it began to change.

I'm a novelist, period. An American novelist.

Some people fake their death, I'm faking my life.

Dying was just an extended version of Ash Wednesday.

Popular culture is inescapable in the U.S. Why not use it?

The excitement of theatre is palpable but the frustrations, and the complete absence of a definitive evening - the play as text means practically nothing in a way - , there's no particular performance that is definitive in the way a novel is a solid object you hold in your hands and here it is. You can't say that about a play. If the novel gives us a sense of throbbing consciousness, theater is pure soul, beautiful and elusive.

Hardship makes the world obscure.