Quotes by : David Foster Wallace

An ad that pretends to be art is -- at absolute best -- like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because....

The worst thing about irony for me is that it attenuates emotion.

Almost anyone who loves tennis and follows the men’s tour on television has, over the last few years,....

What if, when Tracy Austin writes that after her 1989 car crash, 'I quickly accepted that there was nothing....

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

Gately can't even imagine what it would be like to be a sober and drug-free biker. It's like what would....

No wonder we cannot appreciate the really central Kafka joke: that the horrific struggle to establish....

You know, the whole thing about perfectionism. The perfectionism is very dangerous. Because of course....

I never, even for a moment, doubted what they’d told me. This is why it is that adults and even parents....

I am not sure whether you could call this abuse, but when I was (long ago) abroad in the world of dry....