I believe I want adult sanity, which seems to me the only unalloyed form of heroism available today.
David Foster WallaceI think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art.
David Foster WallaceStated as an English sentence, of course, this is just a banal platitude - but the fact is that, in the day-to-day trenches of adult existence, banal platitudes can have life-or-death importance. That may sound like hyperbole, or abstract nonsense.
David Foster Wallace