813 Quotes by Don DeLillo

Certainly I’ve never tried to imagine what the future will hold. It’s a hopeless endeavor to try to do such a thing...

Let’s enjoy these aimless days while we cam, I told myself, fearing some kind of deft acceleration.

We lead more interesting lives than we think. We are characters in plots, without the compression and numinous sheen. Our lives, examined carefully in all their affinities and links, abound with suggestive meaning, with themes and involute turnings we have not allowed ourselves to see completely.

Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals.

A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn’t live his life in a certain way, this death is an introduction to an eternity of pain.

In cities no one notices specific dying. Dying is a quality of the air. It’s everywhere and nowhere.

This was worse than a retched nightmare. It was the nightmare of real things, the fallen wonder of the world.

People say great art is immortal. I say there’s something mortal in it. It carries a glimpse of death.

I slept for four years. I didn’t study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.