Don Delillo quotes

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.

Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.

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

I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else.

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.

People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.

I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and the only way to understand it was to write about it.

People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.

In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.

The future belongs to crowds.

There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.