904 Quotes by David Foster Wallace

That females are capable of being just as vulgar about sexual and eliminatory functions as males.

Irony has only emergency use. Carried over time, it is the voice of the trapped who have come to enjoy their cage.

By week’s end, when we’d had all manner of weather, I finally saw what it was about heavy seas and marvelous rest: in heavy seas you feel rocked to sleep, with the windows’ spume a gentle shushing, the engines’ throb a mother’s pulse.

Don’t ask why if you don’t want to die. Do as you’re told if you want to get old.

It takes a big man to laugh at himself, but it takes an even bigger man to laugh at that man.

Callers who even more unconsciously blemish-scanned or nostril-explored looked up to find horrified expressions on the video-faces at the other end. All of which resulted in videophonic stress.

The other half is to dramatize the fact that we still “are” human beings, now. Or can be.

One of the really American things about Hal, probably, is the way he despises what it is he’s really lonely for.

Let’s not sit around and give each other hand-jobs.