Category: Don DeLillo

“There’s always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.”
-Don DeLillo

“In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that’s filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.”
-Don DeLillo

“I slept for four years. I didn’t study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.”
-Don DeLillo

“There’s a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.”
-Don DeLillo

“People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.”
-Don DeLillo

“Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.”
-Don DeLillo

“Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.”
-Don DeLillo

“I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.”
-Don DeLillo

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

“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.”
-Don DeLillo