77 Quotes by David Foster

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

We all suffer alone in the real world; true empathy's impossible.

An ad that pretends to be art is – at absolute best – like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something from you.

How totally banal of you to ask what I really mean.

A U. S. of modern A. where the State is not a team or a code, but a sort of sloppy intersection of desires and fears, where the only public consensus a boy must surrender to is the acknowledged primacy of straight-line pursuing this flat and short-sighted idea of personal happiness.

Ya' know, these days kids seem to be getting younger and younger.

We are who people think we are.

I don’t really mean what I’m saying.

I've noticed that, while I can't help but respect and sort of envy the moral nerve of people who truly do not care what others think of them, people like this also make me nervous, and I tend to do my admiring from a safe distance.