904 Quotes by David Foster Wallace

Is it showing off if you hate it?

No horror on earth or elsewhere could equal watching your own offspring open his mouth and have nothing come out.

For me, boviscopophobia is an even stronger motive than semi-agoraphobia for staying on the ship when we’re in port.

Attachments are of great seriousness. Choose your attachments carefully. Choose your temple of fanaticism with great care. What you wish to sing of as tragic love is an attachment not carefully chosen. Die for one person? This is a craziness. Persons change, leave, die, become ill. They leave, lie, go mad, have sickness, betray you, die. Your nation outlives you. A cause outlives you.

If two people get married in West Virginia and then pull up stakes and move to Massachusetts and then if they decide they want to get a divorce, what’s the biggest problem getting a divorce?

I had kind of a midlife crisis at twenty which probably doesn’t augur well for my longevity.

Over half the admits to psych wards are things like cheerleaders who swallow two bottles of Mydol over a high-school breakup or gray lonely asexual depressing people rendered inconsolable by the death of a pet. The cathartic trauma of actually going in somewhere.

Enfield MA is one of the stranger little facts that make up the idea that is metro Boston, because it is a township composed almost entirely of medical, corporate, and spiritual facilities.

Breasts are uniformly zeppelinesque and in various perilous stages of semiconfinement.