“It is within your power to experience a crowded, loud, slow, consumer-hell-type situation as not only meaningful but sacred, on fire with… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
There is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Metafiction is untrue, as a lover. It cannot betray. It can only reveal. Itself is the only object. It's the act of… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
You are what you love. No? You are, completely and only, what you would die for without, as you say, the thinking… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Who wouldn’t love this jargon we dress common sense in: "formal innovation is no longer transformative, having been co-opted by the forces… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
There is no hatred in my love for you. Only a sadness I feel all the more strongly for my inability to… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“At first you maybe start to like some person on the basis of, you know, features of the person. The way they… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Mario'd fallen in love with the first Madam Psychosis programs because he felt like he was listening to someone sad read out… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“I had to face: I had chosen. My choice, this was love. I had chosen I think the way out of the… — 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
“It may be that psychologists are off-base in their preoccupation with children’s need to feel that their father or some other parent… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“For reasons that are not well understood, war's codes are safer for most of us than love's.” — 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
Say the whole point of love is to try to get your fingers through the holes in the lover's mask. To get… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Some words have to be explicitly uttered, Lenore. Only by actually uttering certain words does one really DO what one SAYS. 'Love'… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Lenore, it's simply that I love you. You know that. Every fiber of your being is loved by every fiber of my… — 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
“--and then you're in serious trouble, very serious trouble, and you know it, finally, deadly serious trouble, because this Substance you thought… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“[Stice's] parents had met and fallen in love in a Country/Western bar in Partridge KS — just outside Liberal KS on the… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Look. Listen. Use ears I'd be proud to call our own. Listen to the silence behind the engines' noise. Jesus, Sweets, listen… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
But if you've really learned how to think, how to pay attention...it will actually be within your power to experience a crowded,… — 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
