Many 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 WallaceTalent is its own expectation, Jim: you either live up to it or it waves a hankie, receding forever.
David Foster WallaceThe job of the first eight pages is not to have the reader want to throw the book at the wall, during the first eight pages.
David Foster WallaceThis is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it.
David Foster Wallace