904 Quotes by David Foster Wallace

By all means don’t THINK about the validity of what they’re claiming your life hinges on. Oh do not ask what IS it. Do not ask not whether it’s not insane. Simply open wide for the spoon.

And then but so what’s the difference between tennis and suicide, life and death, the game and its own end?

Not that that mystical stuff’s necessarily true: The only thing that’s capital-T true is that you get to decide how you’re going to try to see it.

My father’s mood surrounded him like a field and affected any room he occupied, like an odor or a certain cast to the light.

Our endless and impossible journey toward home is in fact our home.

The sun like a sneaky keyhole view of hell.

There’s a kind of Ah-ha! Somebody at least for a moment feels about something or sees something the way that I do. It doesn’t happen all the time. It’s these brief flashes or flames, but I get that sometimes. I feel unalone – intellectually, emotionally, spiritually. I feel human and unalone and that I’m in a deep, significant conversation with another consciousness in fiction and poetry in a way that I don’t with other art.

You know those mass-market cartridges, for the masses? The ones that are so bad they’re somehow perversely good? This was worse than that.

Trying to be anti-cool is just one exponent off trying to be cool – it’s the same beast.