Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies. Don DeLillo More Quotes by Don DeLillo More Quotes From Don DeLillo Evil is movement towards void. Don DeLillo voidmovementevil It's not enough to hate your enemy. You have to understand how the two of you bring each other to deep completion. Don DeLillo hatetwoenemy You shout because it makes you brave or you want to announce your recklessness. Don DeLillo bravecouragewant Tourism is the march of stupidity. Don DeLillo tourismmarchstupidity I didn’t do anything. I don’t have an explanation, I don’t know why I wanted to write. I did some short stories at that time, but very infrequently. I quit my job just to quit. I didn’t quit my job to write fiction. I just didn’t want to work anymore Don DeLillo writingjobsfiction May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan. Don DeLillo plansactionmay Words are not necessary to one's experience of the true life. Don DeLillo true-life You become a serious novelist by living long enough. Don DeLillo novelistswritinglong There's never a dearth of reasons to shoot at the President. Don DeLillo presidentreason We're the last billionth of a second in the evolution of matter. Don DeLillo lastsevolutionmatter 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. Don DeLillo narrative-structurevisionliterature When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery. Don DeLillo literaturetryingway I am not particularly distressed by the state of fiction or the role of the writer. The more marginal, perhaps ultimately the more trenchant and observant and finally necessary he'll become. Don DeLillo rolesstatesfiction Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail. Don DeLillo bedtimedangerousjail As belief shrinks from the world, it is more necessary than ever that someone believe. Wild-eyed men in caves. Nuns in black. Monks who do not speak. We are left to believe. Fools, children. Those who have abandoned belief must still believe in us. They are sure they are right not to believe but they know belief must not fade completely. Hell is when no one believes. Don DeLillo menbelievechildren I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence. Don DeLillo sentencesliteraturereality I think if you maintain a force in the world that comes into people's sleep, you are exercising a meaningful power. Don DeLillo exercisesleepmeaningful Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted. Don DeLillo keeping-secretsmenneeds 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 weddingphotographywriting Just because it's on the radio doesn't mean we have to suspend belief in the evidence of our senses. Don DeLillo radiobeliefmean
