david foster wallace

“ To be, in a word, unborable.... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish. ”

“ You can be shaped, or you can be broken. There is not much in between. Try to learn. Be coachable. ”

“ Life's endless war against the self you cannot live without. ”

“ It is unimaginably hard to do this to live consciously, adultly, day in and day out. ”

“ Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you. ”

“ And when he came to, he was flat on his back on the beach in the freezing sand, and it was raining out of a low sky, and the tide was way out. ”

“ Almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it. ”

“ Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. ”

“ ... the sun would leave my sky if I couldn't assume you'd simply come and tell me you were sad... ”

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