I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and st... - David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

"That sometimes human beings have to just sit in one place and, like, hurt. That you will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do. That there is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness. That it is possible to fall asleep during an anxiety attack. That concentrating on anything is very hard work."

"We are all dying to give our lives away to something, maybe. God or Satan, politics or grammar, topology or philately (...) To games or needles, to some other person."

"Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else."

"The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you."

"Mary had a little lamb, its fleece electrostatic / And everywhere Mary went, the lights became erratic."