David Foster Wallace

Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.

I just think that fiction that isn't exploring what it means to be human today isn't art.

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

Hospice means end-of-life care. The admission ticket is a diagnosis from a doctor that you have six months or less to live.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.