813 Quotes by Don DeLillo

I embarked on my life – I didn’t do anything. I don’t have an explanation.

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

I want to immerse myself in American magic and dread.

He liked to mingle with shopping mall crowds. “I’m counting on you to tell me, Jack.” “Tell you what?” “You’re the only person I know that’s educated enough to give me the answer.” “The answer to what?” “Were people this dumb before television?” One.

That’s why people take vacations. No to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things.

Miracles share the landscape with death.

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.

Maybe it was the hip-sprung way she moved, high-assed and shiny, alert to surfaces, like a character in a B movie soaked in alimony and gin.

This is the custom among men who have failed to be heroes; their sons must prove that the seed was not impoverished.