Quotes from David Foster Wallace

He didn't reject the idea so much as not react to it and watch as it floated away.

Si scopre che tanto più è insipida la frase fatta ...., tanto più affilati sono i canini della verità vera che nasconde

She had gone to the state fair in Columbus once with her sister Clarice and they had gotten lost in the House of Mirrors and Clarice's purse had been stolen by a man who had pretended to be a reflection until the very last moment.

students tend to carry their own special psychic scars: nerd, geek, dweeb, wonk, fag, wienie, four-eyes, spazola, limp-dick, needle-dick, dickless, dick-nose, pencil-neck; getting your violin or laptop TP or entomologist's kill-jar broken over your large head by thick-necked kids on the playground—and the show pulls down solid FM ratings, though

What's unendurable is what his own head could make of it all. What his head could report to him, looking over and ahead and reporting.

Here is how to sit through small openings of your father's first art films, surrounded by surly foreign cigarette smoke and conversations so pretentious you literally cannot believe them, you're sure you have misheard them.

people who feel that fiction should be easy to read, that it's a popular medium

Almost anyone who loves tennis and follows the men's tour on television has, over the last few years, had what might be termed Federer Moments. These are times, watching the young Swiss at play, when the jaw drops and eyes protrude and sounds are made that bring spouses in from other rooms to see if you're OK.

As everything becomes bad in you, all the good goes out of the world like air out of a big broken balloon.

I'm not a machine. I feel and believe. I have opinions. Some of them are interesting. I could, if you'd let me, talk and talk. Let's talk about anything. I

masturbating but did not. He didn't reject the idea so much

Disappear inside the game: break through limits: transcend: improve: win.

Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think.

Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear.

Tv's "real" agenda is to be "liked," because if you like what you're seeing, you'll stay tuned. tv is completely unabashed about this; it's its sole raison.

One of his troubles with his Moms is the fact that Avril Incandenza believes she knows him inside and out as a human being, and an internally worthy one at that, when in fact inside Hal there's pretty much nothing at all, he knows. His Moms Avril hears her own echoes inside him and thinks what she hears is him, and this makes Hal feel the one thing he feels to the limit, lately: he is lonely. It's

It is a fact of life that certain people are corrosive to others' self esteem simply as a function of who and what they are. The

It's a tradition: The Stick. Something so much an extension of you deserves a sobriquet.

The capital-T Truth is about life before death. It is about making it to 30, or maybe 50, without wanting to shoot yourself in the head.

Forever Overhead No time is passing outside you at all. It is amazing. The late ballet below is slow motion, the overbroad movements of mimes in blue jelly. If you wanted you could really stay here forever, vibrating inside so fast you float motionless in time, like a bee over something sweet.

not sexy so much as angelic, like all the world's light had gotten together and arranged itself into the shape of a face.

In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.

i wish you way more than luck

Hal's brooding. Like most North Americans of his generation, Hal tends to know way less about why he feels certain ways about the objects and pursuits he's devoted to than he does about the objects and pursuits themselves. It's hard to say for sure whether this is even exceptionally bad, this tendency.