David Foster Quotes

For me, boviscopophobia (=the morbid fear of being seen as bovine) is an even stronger motive than semi-agoraphobia for staying on the ship when we're in port.

...having a lot of money does not immunize people from suffering or fear.

She smelled of talcum powder and Big Red.

The reasons that center on others are easy to manipulate. All hollow things are light.

The fraud part of me was always there, just as a puzzle piece, objectively speaking, is a true piece of the puzzle even before you see how it fits.

People hate people, not freedom.

Be on guard. The road widens, and many of the detours are seductive.

I think I was very often bored as a child, but boredom is not what I knew it as—what I knew was that I worried a lot

She was terrified of everything, and terrified to show it.

It's no accident that in a bureaucracy getting fired is called 'termination, ' as in ontological erasure.

We're all on each other's food chain. All of us. It's an individual sport. Welcome to the meaning of individual. We're each deeply alone here. It's what we all have in common, this aloneness.

Commercial comedy's often set up to feature an ironist makingdevastating sport of someone who's naive or sentimental or pretentious orpompous.

The mother at thirty with face commencing to display the faint seams of the plan for the second face life had in store for her and which she feared would be her own mother’s

I never, even for a moment, doubted what they’d told me. This is why it is that adults and even parents can, unwittingly, be cruel: they cannot imagine doubt’s complete absence. They have forgotten.

His parents’ pregnancies must have been all-out chromosomatic war

You might consider how to escape from a cage must surely require, foremost, awareness of the fact of the cage.

And it never even occurs to them their certainty that they are different is what makes them the same.

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.