...the most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about.
David Foster WallaceAnd he wishes, in the cold quiet of his archer's heart, that he himself could feel the intensity of their reconciliations as strongly as he feels that of their battles.
David Foster WallaceI will probably write an hour a day and spend eight hours a day biting my knuckle and worrying about not writing.
David Foster WallaceAmerican experience seems to suggest that people are virtually unlimited in their need to give themselves away, on various levels. Some just prefer to do it in secret.
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