[I]f the writer does his job right, what he basically does is remind the reader of how smart the reader is.
Weitere Zitate von David Foster Wallace
Zum Autor"Your personal will is the web your disease sits and spins in. The will you call your own ceased to be yours as of who knows how many Substance-drenched years ago."
"What I know about auto racing could be inscribed with a dry Magic Marker on the lip of a Coke bottle."
"Be on guard. The road widens, and many of the detours are seductive."
"It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know."
"[T]o really try to be informed and literate today is to feel stupid nearly all the time, and to need help."
"The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day."