Quotes by : David Foster Wallace

The mother at thirty with face commencing to display the faint seams of the plan for the second face....

Am I a good person? Deep down, do I even really want to be a good person, or do I only want to seem like....

Um um um um um. This business of—this business about marketing yourself, there’s nothing wrong with....

Okay, you know, is it weird to get so depressed watching a children’s Christmas special— Oh, wait,....

And we hate this possibility in movies; we hate this "both" shit. "Both" comes off as sloppy characterization,....

In short, not only was it surprising to be greeted in person with such enthusiastic words, but it was....

[I]f the writer does his job right, what he basically does is remind the reader of how smart the reader....

For me, boviscopophobia (=the morbid fear of being seen as bovine) is an even stronger motive than semi-agoraphobia....

And it never even occurs to them their certainty that they are different is what makes them the same.....

Learning how to think' really means learning how to exercise some control over how & what you think.....