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21 " There is a sense—again brought to full boil in Infinite Jest—that our obsession with being entertained has deadened our affect, that we are not, as a character warns in that book, choosing carefully enough what to love. "
― D.T. Max , Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
22 " What goes on inside is just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely sketch the outlines of at most one tiny little part of it at any given instant. "
23 " The truth is out there somewhere, but the dog needs to be walked. "
― D.T. Max
24 " Sleep is central to us. It's central to the experience of being human. That every goes to sleep every night, that we all seek a warm, safe place to cover and restore ourselves for a third of every day, that people of every race and age do this, that we have done it since before we were Homo sapiens, is amazing. Lying down to sleep is the most childlike of gestures, the most trusting. It is at the same time a symbol of ebbing life force, a rehearsal for the day we will lie down and not get up. "