904 Quotes by David Foster Wallace

Another way fathers impact sons is that sons, once their voices have changed in puberty, invariably answer the telephone with the same locutions and intonations as their fathers. This holds true regardless of whether the fathers are still alive.

He was unsure what the thing inside him was and was unprepared to commit himself to the course of action that would be required to explore the question.

There’s something elementally horrific about waking before dawn.

But from special it’s not very far to Alone.

The kid has no idea he even knows something’s wrong.

Time wasn’t passing so much as kneeling beside him in a torn tee-shirt disclosing the rodent-nosed tits of a man who disdains the care of his once-comely bod.

The neurology of failure. What if he was simply born and destined to live in the shadow of Total Fear and Despair, and all his so-called activities were pathetic attempts to distract him from the inevitable?

Booboo, we’ve been over this. I can’t be asleep if we’re talking.

The weird thing is that I cared about him at the same time I found him gross. He grossed me out... And that I was so deep in my problem that I couldn’t accept real, genuine, nonsexual or nonromantic or non-prettiness-type interest in me even if it was offered to me.