I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader.
David Foster WallaceI just think that fiction that isn't exploring what it means to be human today isn't art.
David Foster WallaceRap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.
David Foster WallaceLonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people. People affect them too strongly.
David Foster Wallace