David Foster Wallace

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

"The freedom all to be lords of our tiny skull-sized kingdoms"

"Worship power, you will end up feeling weak and afraid, and you will need ever more power over others to numb you to your own fear. Worship your intellect, being seen as smart, you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge of being found out. But the insidious thing about these forms of worship is not that they're evil or sinful, it's that they're unconscious. They are default settings."