“If I’m hanging out with you, I can’t even tell whether I like you or not because I’m too worried about whether… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“The reasons that center on others are easy to manipulate. All hollow things are light.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit suicide with firearms nearly always shoot themselves in...the head. And the… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Lenore, it's simply that I love you. You know that. Every fiber of your being is loved by every fiber of my… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, when I don't think about it, I think I have just totally escaped the Bad Thing, and that I am going… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“But and so things are slow, and like you they have this irritating suspicion that any real satisfaction is still way, way… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“The problem is going to be, "Let's see, I spent all day staring at a computer screen and then at night my… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“I am fortunately an entirely handsome devil and appear even younger than twenty-nine. I look like a clean cut youth, a boy… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“JAY: No really. Be secure. Pretend I'm a sperm cell. Here. I take the string out of the... hood of my sweatshirt,… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“But he’d also gotten a personal prickly chill all over from his own thinking. He could do the dextral pain the same… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“I felt more solidly composed, now that I was horizontal. I was impossible to knock down.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share
“We all have our little solipsistic delusions, ghastly intuitions of utter singularity: that we are the only one in the house who ever fills… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share
“It's no accident that in a bureaucracy getting fired is called 'termination,' as in ontological erasure.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share
Footnote: 79) The anchor is gigantic and must weigh a hundred tons, and -- delightfully -- it really is anchor-shaped, i.e. the same shape… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share
“The paradoxical intercourse of audience and celebrity. The suppressed awareness that the whole reason ordinary people found celebrity fascinating was that they were not,… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share
“I am coming to see that the sensation of the worst nightmares, a sensation that can be felt asleep or awake, is identical to… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share
“He cranks the condo’s AC way down at night and still most mornings wakes up soaked, fetally curled, entombed in that kind of psychic… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share
“To me, at least in retrospect, the really interesting question is why dullness proves to be such a powerful impediment to attention. Why we… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share
“If you’re subjected to enough great salesmen and salespitches and marketing concepts for long enough—like from your earliest Saturday-morning cartoons, let’s say—it is only… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share
“She almost reminds the engineer of certain types in high school whom everyone adored because you sensed it made no difference to them whether… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share
To be, in a word, unborable… It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share
“It is within your power to experience a crowded, loud, slow, consumer-hell-type situation as not only meaningful but sacred, on fire with the same… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share
