813 Quotes by Don DeLillo

I am very unmusical. I can’t carry a tune. I would never be able to play an instrument.

Being called a ‘bad citizen’ is a compliment to a novelist, at least to my mind. That’s exactly what we ought to do.

I’ll tell you what it means, these orbiting sensors that can hear us in our beds. It means the end of loyalty. The more complex the systems, the less conviction in people. Conviction will be drained out of us. Devices will drain us, make us vague and pliant.

Sex finds us. Sex sees through us. That’s why it’s so shattering. It strips us of appearances.

One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it’s the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language.

He had a good vocabulary except when he was talking to someone.

The term itself – my life – is a desperate overstatement.

We travel into or away from our photographs.

Everything is supposed to be something. But it never is. That’s the nature of existence.