Top 26 Quotes by David Foster Wallace

This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it.

Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes.

It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most 'familiarity' is meditated and delusive.

To be willing to sort of die in order to move the reader, somehow. Even now I'm scared about how sappy this'll look in print, saying this.

This is nourishing, redemptive; we become less alone inside.

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.

The other half is to dramatize the fact that we still 'are' human beings, now. Or can be.

The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.

We're kind of wishing some parents would come back. And of course we're uneasy about the fact that we wish they'd come back - I mean, what's wrong with us?

Fiction's about what it is to be a human being.