Don DeLillo

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I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.

Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted.

People will always make comparisons.

Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.

Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.

There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.

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

There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.

I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood.

I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore.

Hardship makes the world obscure.

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

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.

The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?

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

Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.

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.