I knew my limitations and the limitations of the courts I played on, and adjusted thusly. I was at my best in bad conditions.
David Foster WallaceThe interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.
David Foster WallaceThe individual's right to pursue his own vision of the best ration of pleasure to pain: utterly sacrosanct.
David Foster WallaceThe Sophists had this idea: Forget this idea of what's true or not—what you want to do is rhetoric; you want to be able to persuade the audience and have the audience think you're smart and cool. And Socrates and Plato, basically their whole idea is, "Bullshit. There is such a thing as truth, and it's not all just how to say what you say so that you get a good job or get laid, or whatever it is people think they want.
David Foster Wallace