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 way I think about things and experience things is not particularly linear, and it's not orderly, and it's not pyramidical, and there are a lot of loops.
David Foster WallaceThe Sophists had this idea: Forget this idea of what's true or notโwhat you want to do is rhetoric; you want to be able to persuade the audience and have the audience think you're smart and cool. And Socrates and Plato, basically their whole idea is, "Bullshit. There is such a thing as truth, and it's not all just how to say what you say so that you get a good job or get laid, or whatever it is people think they want.
David Foster Wallace