…the most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the ones that are — David Foster Wallace
There’s good self-consciousness, and then there’s toxic, paralyzing, raped-by-psychic-Bedouins self-consciousness. — David Foster Wallace
She had a brainy girls discomfort about her own beauty and its effects on folks. — David Foster Wallace
I felt the sort of soaring, ceilingless tedium that transcends tedium and becomes worry. — David Foster Wallace
…hideous psychic fallout they’d all endured both in active marijuana-dependency and then — David Foster Wallace
I’d tell you all you want and more, if the sounds I made could be what you hear — David Foster Wallace
People, unless they’re paying attention, tend to confuse fanciness with intelligence or — David Foster Wallace
In reality, genuine epiphanies are extremely rare. In contemporary adult life maturation & — David Foster Wallace