David Foster Wallace

I just think that fiction that isn't exploring what it means to be human today isn't art.

Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.

The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

Hospice means end-of-life care. The admission ticket is a diagnosis from a doctor that you have six months or less to live.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.