Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
There are no choices without personal freedom, Buckeroo. It's not us who are dead inside. These things you find so weak and… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
To experience commitment as the loss of options, a type of death, the death of childhood's limitless possibility, of the flattery of… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
What if sometimes there is no choice about what to love? What if the temple comes to Mohammed? What if you just… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Learning how to think" really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And an outstanding… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The truth is that the heroism of your childhood entertainments was not true valor. It was theatre. The grand gesture, the moment… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“...a large percentage of bright young men and women locate the impetus behind their career choice in the belief that they are… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“I am now 33 years old, and it feels like much time has passed and is passing faster and faster every day.… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“It's no accident that in a bureaucracy getting fired is called 'termination,' as in ontological erasure.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“Why is the truth usually not just un- but anti-interesting?” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
