I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and st... - David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
"I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it."
"I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it."
"The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you."
"How is there freedom to choose if one does not learn how to choose?"
"So tonight to shush you how about if I say I have administrative bones to pick with God, Boo. I'll say God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I'm not crazy about. I'm pretty much anti-death. God looks by all accounts to be pro-death. I'm not seeing how we can get together on this issue, he and I, Boo."
"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."
"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."