Don DeLillo Quotations

Words are not necessary to one's experience of the true life.

People say great art is immortal. I say there's something mortal in it. It carries a glimpse of death.

The language of my books has shaped me as a man.

May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan.

I didn’t do anything. I don’t have an explanation, I don’t know why I wanted to write. I did some short stories at that time, but very infrequently. I quit my job just to quit. I didn’t quit my job to write fiction. I just didn’t want to work anymore

Tourism is the march of stupidity.

You shout because it makes you brave or you want to announce your recklessness.

You feel sorry for yourself. You think you're missing something and you don't know what it is. You're lonely inside your life. You have a job and a family and a fully executed will, already, at your age, because the whole point is to die prepared, die legal, with all the papers signed. Die liquid, so they can convert to cash.

It's not enough to hate your enemy. You have to understand how the two of you bring each other to deep completion.

Evil is movement towards void.