Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?
David Foster WallaceWhat passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of fear of being really human, since to be really human [...] is probably to be unavoidably sentimental and naïve and goo-prone and generally pathetic.
David Foster WallaceMy bones are ringing the way sometimes people say their ears are ringing, I'm so tired.
David Foster WallaceUnder fun's new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illuminate precisely the stuff you don't want to see or let anyone else see, and this stuff usually turns out (paradoxically) to be precisely the stuff all writers and readers share and respond to, feel.
David Foster Wallace