David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

Quotes

• “That sometimes human beings have to just sit in one place and, like, hurt. That you will become way less concerned with ...”
• “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...”
• “Like most North Americans of his generation, Hal tends to know way less about why he feels certain ways about the object...”
• “Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?""I give.""You get someone who ...”
• “We are all dying to give our lives away to something, maybe. God or Satan, politics or grammar, topology or philately (....”
• “This is why they started us here so young: to give ourselves away before the age when the questions 'why' and 'to what' ...”
• “Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”
• “Mary had a little lamb, its fleece electrostatic / And everywhere Mary went, the lights became erratic.”
• “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?”