“Worship your body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly. And when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you.” — David Foster Wallace, Commencement speech, 2005 graduating class, Kenyon College
“The fact is that in the day to day trenches of adult existence, banal platitudes can have a life or death importance.” — David Foster Wallace, Commencement speech, 2005 graduating class, Kenyon College
“The most obvious, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about.” — David Foster Wallace, Commencement speech, 2005 graduating class, Kenyon College
“Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think.” — David Foster Wallace, Commencement speech, 2005 graduating class, Kenyon College
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