“I felt more solidly composed, now that I was horizontal. I was impossible to knock down.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“You have wondered perhaps, why all real accountants wear hats? They are today’s cowboys” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Interesting. Stonecipheco Baby Foods. Not a bad line of products, really. A bit soft and runny for my taste, of course. .… — 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
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Talk about solid turds all you want. The molecular integrity of shit is small potatoes.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 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
