David Foster Wallace Important Quotations

We live today in a world where most of the really important developments in everything from math and physics and astronomy to public policy and psychology and classical music are so extremely abstract and technically complex and context-dependent that it's next to impossible for the ordinary citizen to feel that they (the developments) have much relevance to her actual life.

Everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe, the realest, most vivid and important person in existence.

I received 500,000 discrete bits of information today, of which maybe 25 are important. My job is to make some sense of it.

If you're automatically sure that you know what reality is and who and what is really important-if you want to operate on your default-setting-then you, like me, will not consider possibilities that aren't pointless and annoying.

...the most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about.

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

It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most "familiarity" is meditated and delusive.

Whatever you get paid attention for is never what you think is most important about yourself.