There is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
It's in the democratic citizen's nature to be like a leaf that doesn't believe in the tree it's part of. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“In life, the microphone passes your lips but once... you had better be ready to sing.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
No single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I knew my limitations and the limitations of the courts I played on, and adjusted thusly. I was at my best in… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I'm very bright, but I'm terrified of sounding like someone who thinks he's very bright-because those people are assholes. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn't. You get to decide what to worship. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“It is about simple awareness — awareness of what is so real and essential, so hidden in plain sight all around us,… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“The key is the ability, whether innate or conditioned, to find the other side of the rote, the picayune, the meaningless, the… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Te Occidere Possunt Sed Te Edere Non Possunt Nefas Est" ("They can kill you, but the legalities of eating you are quite… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“You play right up to your limit and then pass your limit and look back at your former limit and wave a… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
If your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Fiction, poetry, music...these are the places (for me) where loneliness is countenanced, stared down, transfigured, treated. — 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
