“Um um um um um. This business of—this business about marketing yourself, there’s nothing wrong with that. Unless we’re allowed to think… — 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
“It's not that students don't "get" Kafka's humor but that we've taught them to see humor as something you get -- the… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Irony tyrannizes us. All US irony is based on an implicit 'I don't really mean what I'm saying.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“(She) says that she's finding it especially hard to take when these earnest ravaged folks at the lectern say they're `Here But… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“We who were not so pathologically far out on the spectrum of self-involvement, we dwellers of the visible spectrum who could imagine… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“(Where do they get these giant flags? What happens to them when there's no campaign? Where do they go? Where do you… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“In a way, what Tarantino has done with the French New Wave and with David Lynch is what Pat Boone did with… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“David Foster Wallace: Because I'd like to be the sort of person who can enjoy things at the time instead of having… — David Lipsky Copy Share Image
“He was lovable the way a child is lovable, and he was capable of returning love with a childlike purity. If love… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“It’s got something to do with love. With having the discipline to talk out of the part of yourself that can love… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Leonard is far and away my least favorite relative, and I have no clue why I call him one night, collect, very… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“According to Wallace, the expectation that art amuses is a 'poisonous lesson for a would-be artist to grow up with,' since it… — Dorothy M. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“And then also, again, still, what are those boundaries, if they’re not baselines, that contain and direct its infinite expansion inward, that… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“ Infinite Jest not only says that being human is hard work; it makes us work hard. It not only suggests we… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
“Mr. Bloemker moved closer. He smelled like a wet diaper. “What is it,” he asked, looking over Lenore’s shoulder. “If it’s what… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“I'm a typical American, half of me is dying to give myself away and the other half is continually rebelling.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“He had finished and collected the three years of drafts [of Infinite Jest] , and finally sat down and typed the whole… — David Lipsky Copy Share Image
