Brief Interviews With Hideous Men

by David Foster Wallace

it’s like you got a Porsche and you’re only driving it to church.

Or that saying about how whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. You think whoever it was that said that was for a woman getting raped? No way.

Totally terrible things happen. Existence and life break people in all kinds of awful fucking ways all the time. Trust me I know, I’ve been there.’