Ideally, each piece of art's its own unique object, and its evaluation's always present-tense.
David Foster WallaceAll I'm saying is that it's shortsighted to blame TV. It's simply another symptom. TV didn't invent our aesthetic childishness here any more than the Manhattan Project invented aggression.
David Foster WallaceThe individual's right to pursue his own vision of the best ration of pleasure to pain: utterly sacrosanct.
David Foster WallaceNo wonder we cannot appreciate the really central Kafka joke: that the horrific struggle to establish a human self results in a self whose humanity is inseparable from the horrific struggle. That our endless and impossible journey toward home is in fact our home.
David Foster WallaceBliss - a-second-by-second joy and gratitude at the gift of being alive, conscious - lies on the other side of crushing, crushing boredom. Pay close attention to the most tedious thing you can find (Tax Returns, Televised Golf) and, in waves, a boredom like youโve never known will wash over you and just about kill you. Ride these out, and itโs like stepping from black and white into color. Like water after days in the desert. Instant bliss in every atom.
David Foster Wallace