David Foster Wallace Want Quotations

Dieting makes me want to murder everyone around me.

K--: 'When they say "I am my own person," "I do not need a man," "I am responsible for my own sexuality," they are actually telling you just what they want you to make them forget.

If you've never wept and want to, have a child.

I don't want to hurt myself. I want to stop hurting.

I believe I want adult sanity, which seems to me the only unalloyed form of heroism available today.

God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though-and what an odd way to achieve success. I'm an exhibitionist who wants to hide, but is unsuccessful at hiding; therefore, somehow I succeed.

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.

I'd tell you all you want and more, if the sounds I made could be what you hear