813 Quotes by Don DeLillo

Music is dangerous in so many ways. It's the most dangerous thing in the world.

There is no lie in war or preparation of war that can't be defended.

Because friends have to be brutally honest with each other. I'd feel terrible if I didn't tell you what I was thinking, especially at a time like this

I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs.

A novel determines its own size and shape and I've never tried to stretch an idea beyond the frame and structure it seemed to require.

There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.

It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the whole picture, the whole culture.

Bloomberg weighed three hundred pounds. This itself was historical. I revered his weight. It was an affirmation of humanity's reckless potential; it went beyond legend and returned through mist to the lovely folly of history. To weigh three hundred pounds. What devout vulgarity.

Do people still shoot at presidents? I thought there were more stimulating targets.' (20)