[I]f the writer does his job right, what he basically does is remind the reader of how smart the reader is.
David Foster WallaceNot that that mystical stuff's necessarily true: The only thing that's capital-T true is that you get to decide how you're going to try to see it.
David Foster WallaceI'm screaming for help and everybody's acting as if I'm singing Ethel Merman covers.
David Foster WallaceI mean the people who seriously, seriously play devote their lives to it sort of the way monks do. I mean you don't date, you go to bed at a certain time, you eat certain ways, you practice 10-12 hours a day. And I mean, the difference between practicing three hours a day and practicing 12 hours a day is everything. And I certainly never - I never trained seriously after the age of 16.
David Foster Wallace