Don DeLillo Quotes

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

We did it. Make no mistake: We have written history. Today there's a change of guards in Denmark.

The era of 'anything goes' is gone for ever.

Great breakthroughs are always followed by great catastrophes.

Mistakes happen in wars. Wars do not go well…. But we adjust.

You've got to realize the world will never be the same.

People don't pay attention. And then one day there's an accounting. And after that, nothing is the same.

But once you throw a stone, there are ripples in the pond, even if you remove the rock.

When a big tree falls, the ground shakes

When you talk of revolution ... you never talk of the day after.

You can't measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.

There comes a time in the life of a nation, as in the life of an individual, when it must face great responsibilities, whether it will or no. We have now reached that time. We cannot avoid facing the fact that we occupy a new place among the people of the world.

Change is never a loss - it is change only.

My illusion is to have something to transmit. If I can't change the world, at least I want to change the way people look at it.

I always have searched for a point of view that a participant could change.

A good story should change the way you see the world.

I'm not looking for images, They just appear and take on an interest. Sometimes you look at a thing and it has no interest and then you see it in a different way and it has another meaning. Or something that was of no use will become useful.

You must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act.

Cynicism was a one-way path, and once taken the way back was lost forever.

There were worse things than dying, and those worse things happened to the people you left behind.

An irrelevance, and your life's altered.

It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest.

I think with President Obama there's going to be a discussion, because he himself is multiracial, because we have for the first time a non-white president. There's going to be talk about what does this mean? What is it? Are we in a new era?

He found that it was easy to make a heroic gesture, but hard to abide by its results.

Falling didn't bother me. I could fall forever and not be hurt. It's stopping that's the problem.