Matt

“The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“It was an excess of fantasy that killed the old United States, the whole Mickey Mouse and Marilyn thing, the most brilliant technologies devoted to trivia like instant cameras and space spectaculars that should have stayed in the pages of Science Fiction . . . some of the last Presidents of the U.S.A. seemed to have been recruited straight from Disneyland.”
― J.G. Ballard

“California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.”
― Don DeLillo, White Noise

“He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22