Don DeLillo

Hardship makes the world obscure. ”

I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts. ”

Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail. ”

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? ”

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

I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation. ”

A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his life in a certain way, this death is an introduction to an eternity of pain. ”

The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence. ”

True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in ways that writers used to aspire to. ”

I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language. ”