David Foster Wallace

"You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn’t. You get to decide what to worship."

- David Foster Wallace

"You’ll worry less about what people think about you when you realize how seldom they do."

- David Foster Wallace

"You’ll stop caring what people think about you when you realize how seldom they do."

- David Foster Wallace

"We’re all lonely for something we don’t know we’re lonely for."

- David Foster Wallace

"I guess a big part of serious fiction’s purpose is to give the reader... imaginative access to other selves."

- David Foster Wallace

"I guess a big part of serious fiction’s purpose is to give the reader, who like all of us is sort of marooned in her own skull, to give her imaginative access to other selves."

- David Foster Wallace