The fact that the most powerful and significant connections in our lives are (at the time) invisible to us seems to me a compelling argument for religious reverence rather than skeptical empiricism as a response to life's meaning.
David Foster WallaceI think it's easy to stop smoking; it's just hard not to commit a felony after you stop.
David Foster WallaceThere is no hatred in my love for you. Only a sadness I feel all the more strongly for my inability to explain or describe it.
David Foster WallaceWhat TV is extremely good at - and realize that this is 'all it does' - is discerning what large numbers of people think they want, and supplying it.
David Foster WallaceAlthough the only way that I'm well known at Illinois State is that I am the "grammar Nazi." And so any student whose deployment of a semi-colon is not absolutely Mozart-esque knows that they're going to get a C in my class, and so my classes tend to have like four students in them. It's really a lot of fun.
David Foster WallaceIt took years after Iād graduated from Amherst to realize that people were actually far more complicated and interesting than books, that almost everyone else suffered the same secret fears and inadequacies as I, and that feeling alone and inferior was actually the great valent bond between us all. I wish Iād been smart enough to understand that when I was an adolescent.
David Foster Wallace