Hal Incandenza Quotes

#1. Hal Incandenza has an almost obsessive dislike for deLint, whom he tells Mario he sometimes cannot quite believe is even real, and tries to get to the side of, to see whether deLint has a true z coordinate or is just a cutout or projection.

David Foster Wallace

#2. The optimist pleasantly ponders how high his kite will fly; the pessimist woefully wonders how soon his kite will fall.

William Arthur Ward

#3. Laney had recently noticed that the only people who had titles that clearly described their jobs had jobs he wouldn't have wanted.

William Gibson

#4. One can disintegrate the world by means of very strong light. For weak eyes the world becomes solid, for still weaker eyes it seems to develop fists, for eyes weaker still it becomes shamefaced and smashes anyone who dares to gaze upon it.

Franz Kafka

#5. But 85 percent of the mosques have extremist leadership in this country. Most Muslims, the overwhelming majority of Muslims, are loyal Americans.

Peter T. King

#6. When someone uses Philosophy as an indispensable tool for tackling Theology and knows no other way for approaching that scripture-related Science, then you must have already figured out by now that he is a gentile who is standing right before you.

Ibrahim Ibrahim

#7. I know is if you're going to cheat on Silas Nash it had better be with Ryan Gosling.

Colleen Hoover

#8. If any man seeks greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Horace Mann

#9. As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.

George Orwell

#10. Here is how to handle being a feral prodigy.

David Foster Wallace

#11. Terrorists are always a threat to someone. If we'll be scared of them, it means they have won.

Vladimir Putin

#12. For all we take we must pay, but the price is cruel high.

Rudyard Kipling

#13. You don't need scores of suitors. You need only one ... if he's the right one.

Louisa May Alcott

#14. The media made the masses to find not-so-skinny women appear not-so-beautiful ... in the eyes of the remote holder.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#15. Everyone will be tracked, cradle to grave, with no possibility of escape.

Dave Eggers