...logical validity is not a guarantee of truth.
You know, I don't want to be offensive. But 'Infinite Jest' [regarded by many as Wallace's masterpiece] is just awful. It seems ridiculous to have to say it. He can't think, he can't write. There's no discernible talent.
At its core, the United States is grateful, warm-hearted, full of unexpected twists and turns - not a cold and bullying prison - it's a place of infinite jest.
Try to let what is unfair teach you.
I'm ashamed and embarrassed to say that I've read very little of David Foster Wallace's work. It's a huge gap in my education, one of many.
I am in that everything [ David Foster Wallace] writes is pretty much the best stuff I've read, so that makes me a fan I guess.
Why not? Why not?Why not not, then, if the best reasoning you can contrive is why not?
It takes great personal courage to let yourself appear weak.
No single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.
For whatever reason, when it came out in 1995, 'Infinite Jest' became a cultural event. It was the massive book that was 'cool' for all the Gen Xers to read.
Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?
Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you.
It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know.
My chest bumps like a dryer with shoes in it.
There is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness.
The fund of sensible discourse is limited; that of jest and badinerie is infinite.
