David Foster Wallace Quotes

I think the main function of contemporary irony is to protect thespeaker from being interpreted as naive or sentimental.

The worst thing about irony for me is that it attenuates emotion.

Irony and hip ennui are extremely authoritarian.

For me, art that's alive and urgent is about what it is to be a human being.

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.

I mean, Tarantino is such a SHMUCK 90 percent of the time. But ten percent of the time, I've seen genius shining off the guy.