My bones are ringing the way sometimes people say their ears are ringing, I'm so tired.
David Foster WallacePleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se.
David Foster WallaceYou are what you love. No? You are, completely and only, what you would die for without, as you say, the thinking twice.
David Foster WallaceIf you're writing fiction, you're dealing with characters who, themselves, will have heartfelt sentiments but who, themselves, live in this culture right now and thus face all the impediments to sort of dealing with those parts of their lives that, you know, that we did. So it would be not only silly but unrealistic to have a character saying that kind of stuff.
David Foster WallaceThere's a certain kind of neurological makeup that goes along with being a writer, and having been in the room with a few other writers at the same time, it's rather wearing to be around. And it does - there is a kind of hypervigilance about it. Unfortunately it's got disadvantages. If you turn that hypervigilance on yourself and, for instance, whether or not you have a pimple on the end of your nose, it can get really depressing.
David Foster Wallace