Theres 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
I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism. – Don DeLillo
People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power. – Don DeLillo
The universal human laws – need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain – are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture. – George Saunders