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

Don DeLillo

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.

Don DeLillo

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

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.

Don DeLillo

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

Don DeLillo

The future belongs to crowds.

Don DeLillo

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

Don DeLillo

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

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.

Don DeLillo

People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.

Don DeLillo

People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.

Don DeLillo

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

Don DeLillo

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.

Don DeLillo

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

Don DeLillo

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

Don DeLillo

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

Don DeLillo

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.

Don DeLillo