Brief Interviews With Hideous Men

by David Foster Wallace

he made a witticism, hoping to be liked.

You have decided being scared is caused mostly by thinking.

It may, after all, be all right to do something scary without thinking, but not when the scariness is the not thinking itself.

There’s been time this whole time. You can’t kill time with your heart. Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.