“I'm so scared of dying without ever being really seen. Can you understand?” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Part of the reason I actually preferred Twin Peaks's second season to its first was the fascinating spectacle of watching a narrative… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Lenz likes him, and there's always this slight hangnail of fear, like clinging, whenever he likes somebody. It's like something terrible could… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
And I was -- this is just how I was afraid you'd take it. I knew it, that you'd think this means… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Worship power-you will feel weak and afraid, and you will need ever ore power over others to keep the fear at bay.… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
My own terror of appearing sentimental is so strong that I’ve decided to fight against it, some; but the terror is still… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
That sometimes human beings have to just sit in one place and, like, hurt. That you will become way less concerned with… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“[...] at this point the God-understanding stuff kind of makes him want to puke, from fear. Something you can't see or hear… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
How promising you are as a Student of the Game is a function of what you can pay attention to without running… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“You'll worry less about what people think about you when you realize how seldom they do.” — 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
