I like the fansโ sound at night. Do you? Itโs like somebody big far away goes like: itโsOKitโsOKitโsOKitโsOK, over and over. From very far away.
David Foster WallaceThe point is that petty, frustrating crap like this is exactly where the work of choosing comes in. Because the traffic jams and crowded aisles and long checkout lines give me time to think, and if I don't make a conscious decision about how to think and what to pay attention to, I'm going to be pissed and miserable every time I have to food-shop, because my natural default-setting is the certainty that situations like this are really all about me, about my hungriness and my fatigue and my desire to just get home.
David Foster WallaceThe individual's right to pursue his own vision of the best ration of pleasure to pain: utterly sacrosanct.
David Foster WallaceThink of the old clichรฉ about โthe mind being an excellent servant but a terrible master.โ This, like many clichรฉs, so lame and unexciting on the surface, actually expresses a great and terrible truth. It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit suicide with firearms almost always shoot themselves in: the head.
David Foster Wallace