David Foster Wallace Quotes
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There are no choices without personal freedom, Buckeroo. It's not us who are dead inside. These things you find so weak and contemptible in us - these are just the hazards of being free
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The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.
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What if sometimes there is no choice about what to love? What if the temple comes to Mohammed? What if you just love? without deciding? You just do: you see her and in that instant are lost to sober account-keeping and cannot choose but to love?
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It looks like you can write a minimalist piece without much bleeding. And you can. But not a good one.
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This is nourishing, redemptive; we become less alone inside.
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Betraying her class and origin with the heartbreaking openness Joelle's always viewed as either terribly stupid or terribly brave
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The other half is to dramatize the fact that we still 'are' human beings, now. Or can be.
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It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.
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After a few weeks of this she'd spend a whole day weeping, beating at herself as if on fire.
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My chest bumps like a dryer with shoes in it.
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Severity is in the eye of the sufferer, it says. Pain is pain.
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Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes.
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This diagnosis can be done in about two lines. It doesn't engage anybody.
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Fiction's about what it is to be a human being.