813 Quotes by Don DeLillo

I needed death in order to believe I was living, an atmosphere of death much more real and personal than anything the newspapers can offer.

Choice is a subtle form of disease.

Everything was on television last night.

She is beginning to think it is possible that all creation is a spurt of blank matter that chances to make an emerald planet here, a dead star there, with random waste between.

I think literature has lost it’s power. Great novels continue to be written, but they are no longer changing the world.

Famous people don’t want to be told that you have a quality in common with them. It makes them think there’s something crawling in their clothes.

The words were old and true, full of reassurance, comfort, consolation. Men followed such words to their death because other men before them had done the same, and perhaps it was easier to die than admit that words could lose their meaning.

It’s hard to be beautiful. You have an obligation to people. You almost become public property. You can lose yourself and get almost mentally disturbed on just the public nature of being beautiful. Don’t think I haven’t thought about it. You can get completely lost in that whole dumb mess. And anyway who’s to say what’s beautiful and what’s ugly?

He speaks in your voice, American, and there’s a shine in his eye that’s halfway hopeful.