Don DeLillo

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

People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of…

I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz…

The future belongs to crowds…

I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church…

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

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

In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that’s…

I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way…

There’s always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the…

I slept for four years. I didn’t study much of anything. I majored in something…

There’s a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of…

People who are powerless make an open theater of violence…

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

The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of…