“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
“(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
“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
“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
“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
“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
