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.

People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.

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

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.

Men can be men and still get excited about other men kicking a ball around and they're never mocked, whereas it's easy for women to take mocking on board, to be belittled. Because we're used to it.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'