904 Quotes by David Foster Wallace

Our attachments are our temple, what we worship, no? What we give ourselves to, what we invest with faith.

Rhythms are relations between what you believe and what you believed before.

Irony, entertaining as it is, serves an almost exclusively negative function. It’s critical and destructive, a ground-clearing.

Her expression is from Page 18 of the Victoria’s Secret catalogue.

But what of Lenore, of Lenore’s hair? Here is hair that is clearly within and of itself every color – blond and red and jet-black-blue and honeynut – but which effects an outward optical compromise with possibility that consists of appearing simply dull brown, save for brief teasing glimpses out of the corner of one’s eye.

The conjoined dogs were too distant to ascertain whether they had collars or tags, yet close enough that I could make out the expression on the face of the dominant dog above. It was blank and at the same time fervid – the same general expression as on a human being’s face when he is doing something that he feels compulsively driven to do and yet does not understand just why he wants to do it.

Sometimes he finds out he believes something that he doesn’t even know he believed until it exits his mouth.

Respecting infinite sets, for example, Intuitionism is rabidly anti-Cantor and Formalism staunchly pro-Cantor, even though both Formalism and Intuitionism are anti-Plato and Cantor is a diehard Platonist. Which, migrainous or not, means we’re back to metaphysics: the modern wrangle over math’s procedures is ultimately a dispute over the ontological status of math entities.

He was around where the tree-line bulged herniatically out toward the end of the West Courts’ fencing.