In fact, the likeliest reason why so many of us care so little about politics is that modern politicians makes us sad,… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
My bones are ringing the way sometimes people say their ears are ringing, I'm so tired. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The fun of reading as "an exchange between consciousnesses, a way for human beings to talk to each other about stuff we… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Two young salmon are swimming along one day. As they do, they are passed by a wiser, older fish coming the other… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I'm not afraid of new things. I'm just afraid of feeling alone even when there's somebody else there. I'm afraid of feeling… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
And when he came to, he was flat on his back on the beach in the freezing sand, and it was raining… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“...a large percentage of bright young men and women locate the impetus behind their career choice in the belief that they are… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The way I think about things and experience things is not particularly linear, and it's not orderly, and it's not pyramidical, and… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Under fun's new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illuminate precisely the stuff you don't want… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
It now lately sometimes seemed a black miracle to me that people could actually care deeply about a subject or pursuit, and… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Like most North Americans of his generation, Hal tends to know way less about why he feels certain ways about the objects… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I mean the people who seriously, seriously play devote their lives to it sort of the way monks do. I mean you… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
It’s a very American illness, the idea of giving yourself away entirely to the idea of working in order to achieve some… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most "familiarity" is meditated and delusive. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
In the broadest possible sense, writing well means to communicate clearly and interestingly and in a way that feels alive to the… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though-and what an odd way to achieve success. I'm an exhibitionist who wants to… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Boo, I think I no longer believe in monsters as faces in the floor or feral infants or vampires or whatever. I… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Fiction becomes a weird way to countenance yourself and to tell the truth instead of being a way to escape yourself or… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
What the really great artists do is they're entirely themselves. They're entirely themselves, they've got their own vision, they have their own… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
In dark times, the definition of good art would seem to be art that locates and applies CPR to those elements of… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
(I'm not putting any of this well. I am not and never have been an intellectual. I am not articulate, and the… — 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
