813 Quotes by Don DeLillo

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

It takes centuries to invent the primitive.

The only problem I had was that my whole life was a lesson in the effect of echoes, that I was living in the third person.

Whatever you set your mind to, your personal total obsession, this is what kills you. Poetry kills you if you’re a poet, and so on. People choose their death whether they know it or not.

Plot a murder, you’re saying. But every plot is a murder in effect. To plot is to die, whether we know it or not.

What ambiguity there is in exalted things. We despise them a little.

What’s the point of living if we don’t die at the end of it?

America can be saved only by what it’s trying to destroy.

Fear is intense self-awareness.