David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest Quotes
I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.
The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.
It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know.
It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase.
she committed suicide by putting her extremities down the garbage disposal-first one arm and then, kind of miraculously if you think about it, the other arm.
Mary had a little lamb, its fleece electrostatic / And everywhere Mary went, the lights became erratic.
...most Substance-addicted people are also addicted to thinking, meaning they have a compulsive and unhealthy relationship with their own thinking.
This appetite to choose death by pleasure if it is available to choose - this appetite of your people unable to choose appetites, this is the death.
You decide. You be the judge. It says You are welcome regardless of severity. Severity is in the eye of the sufferer, it says. Pain is pain.
Your personal will is the web your disease sits and spins in. The will you call your own ceased to be yours as of who knows how many Substance-drenched years ago.
His parents’ pregnancies must have been all-out chromosomatic war
It's no accident that in a bureaucracy getting fired is called 'termination, ' as in ontological erasure.
Be on guard. The road widens, and many of the detours are seductive.
...having a lot of money does not immunize people from suffering or fear.
How is there freedom to choose if one does not learn how to choose?
We are all dying to give our lives away to something, maybe. God or Satan, politics or grammar, topology or philately (...) To games or needles, to some other person.
This is why they started us here so young: to give ourselves away before the age when the questions 'why' and 'to what' grow real beaks and claws.
