To make someone an icon is to make him an abstraction, and abstractions are incapable of vital communication with living people.
David Foster WallaceIf you worship power, you will feel weak and afraid, needing ever more power over others to keep the fear at bay.
David Foster WallaceLucky people develop a relationship with a certain kind of art that becomes spiritual, almost religious, and doesnโt mean, you know, church stuff, but it means youโre just never the same.
David Foster WallaceMany people in America throw the term "fascism" around, particularly for Middle-Eastern terrorists, but in fact what fascism really is is a close alliance between a unitary executive and a state and large corporations and a state.
David Foster Wallace