The David Foster Wallace Reader Quotes

“Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans.”
― David Foster Wallace, The David Foster Wallace Reader

“Because all these people have, you see, by this time already killed themselves, where it really counts. By the time these people swallow entire medicine cabinets or take naps in the garage or whatever, they’ve already been killing themselves for ever so long. When they ‘commit suicide’, they’re just being orderly.”
― David Foster Wallace, The David Foster Wallace Reader

“Forever Overhead"

No time is passing outside you at all. It is amazing. The late ballet below is slow motion, the overbroad movements of mimes in blue jelly. If you wanted you could really stay here forever, vibrating inside so fast you float motionless in time, like a bee over something sweet.”
― David Foster Wallace, The David Foster Wallace Reader

“It says: ‘Scenery is here. Wish you were beautiful.”
― David Foster Wallace, The David Foster Wallace Reader

“It’d be like casting a ballot for Stalin: you are voting for an end to all voting.”
― David Foster Wallace, The David Foster Wallace Reader

“As everything becomes bad in you, all the good goes out of the world like air out of a big broken balloon.”
― David Foster Wallace, The David Foster Wallace Reader

“desire is the sugar in human food.”
― David Foster Wallace, The David Foster Wallace Reader

“Brody”
― David Foster Wallace, The David Foster Wallace Reader

“light sharp bitter tint”
― David Foster Wallace, The David Foster Wallace Reader