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. ”

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

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

I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs. ”

If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely. ”

I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence. ”

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

The future belongs to crowds. ”