I think fiction comes from everything you've ever done, and said, and dreamed, and imagined. It comes from everything you've read and haven't read... I think my work comes out of the culture of the world around me. I think that's where my language comes from.
"Exile on Main Street: Don DeLillo's Undisclosed Underworld". David Remnick, The New Yorker, September 15, 1997.