Don DeLillo

“The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever.”

“The future belongs to crowds.”

“This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on the other.”

“The future belongs to crowds.”

“To be a tourist is to escape accountability. Errors and failings don't cling to you the way they do back home.”

“What we are reluctant to touch often seems the very fabric of our salvation.”

“What we are reluctant to touch often seems the very fabric of our salvation.”

“A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it.”

“Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us.”

“We're all plots, waiting for an author.”

“Sometimes I think the only thing you have to do is find a way to be alone.”

“Fame requires every kind of excess. I mean true fame, a devouring neon, not the somber renown of waning statesmen or chinless kings.”

“All plots tend to move deathward.”

“The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation.”

“In a crisis, the true facts are whatever other people say they are.”

“Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us.”

“This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on the other.”

“It's not enough to be able to lie with a straight face; anybody with nerve can do that. A man's got to believe the lie.”

“This is the nature of modern death. It has a life independent of us. It is a commodity; it is a form of entertainment.”

“Terror is now the world narrative, unquestionably.”