Humor Quotes by David Foster Wallace

“Hell hath no fury like a coolly received postmodernist.”

— David Foster Wallace

“You have wondered perhaps, why all real accountants wear hats? They are today’s cowboys”

— David Foster Wallace

“I felt more solidly composed, now that I was horizontal. I was impossible to knock down.”

— David Foster Wallace

“Talk about solid turds all you want. The molecular integrity of shit is small potatoes.”

— David Foster Wallace

“It was really almost a 90-yard punt, and had the sort of hang-time the Special Teams Asst. said you could have tender…

— David Foster Wallace

“It's always seemed a little preposterous that Hamlet, for all his paralyzing doubt about everything, never once doubts the reality of the…

— David Foster Wallace

“Commercial comedy's often set up to feature an ironist making devastating sport of someone who's naive or sentimental or pretentious or pompous.”

— David Foster Wallace

“Interesting. Stonecipheco Baby Foods. Not a bad line of products, really. A bit soft and runny for my taste, of course. .…

— David Foster Wallace

Such techniques, including meta-discursive stuff, self-reference, irony, black humor, cynicism, grotesquerie and shock, it would be safe to say that television or…

— David Foster Wallace

“The bus had a lavatory in the wayback rear, which no one ever made any attempt to use, and I remember consciously…

— David Foster Wallace

“I can remember hearing one middle-aged man who sat nearby saying 'Simmer down, boyo' to another older man seated kitty-corner to me…

— David Foster Wallace

“and while a couple of prorectors are feared, none of them is all that much respected, and they're avoided, and stick together…

— David Foster Wallace

“I spent a lot of time as a volunteer in a nursing home in Amherst last summer. I was reading Dante's Divine…

— David Foster Wallace

“Fackelmann claimed to have started a Log just to keep track of Kite's attempted pickup lines -- surefire lines like e.g. 'You're…

— David Foster Wallace

“I'm up there trying to do my Chore. I've got the men's bathroom. There's something... Pat there's something in the toilet up…

— David Foster Wallace

“Your basic-type jailhouse tatt is homemade with sewing needles from the jailhouse canteen and some blue ink from the cartridge of a…

— David Foster Wallace

“Modern party-dance is simply writhing to suggestive music. It is ridiculous, silly to watch and excruciatingly embarrassing to perform. It is ridiculous,…

— David Foster Wallace

“You want to know the story? I'd be happy to tell you. I think I have just enough caloric energy stored up…

— David Foster Wallace

“An academic definition of Lynchian might be that the term "refers to a particular kind of irony where the very macabre and…

— David Foster Wallace

“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