Ben

“Good fiction’s job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”
― David Foster Wallace

“Eliza—” I said, “so many of the books I’ve read to you said love was the most important thing of all. Maybe I should tell you that I love you now.”
“Go ahead,” she said.
“I love you, Eliza,” I said.
She thought about it. “No,” she said at last, “I don’t like it.”
“Why not?” I said.
”It’s as though you were pointing a gun at my head,” she said. “It’s just a
way of getting somebody to say something they probably don’t mean. What
else can I say, or anybody say, but, ‘I love you, too’?”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“...logical validity is not a guarantee of truth.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“It’s a very American illness, the idea of giving yourself away entirely to the idea of working in order to achieve some sort of brass ring that usually involves people feeling some way about you – I mean, people wonder why we walk around feeling alienated and lonely and stressed out.”
― David Foster Wallace