David Wallace
David Wallace
A brilliant but troubled author, he is best known for Infinite Jest (1996) and other philosophically complex novels. He committed suicide at the age of forty-six.
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth21 February 1962
CityIthaca, NY
building people roots shock
This was a shock to everyone. The building has been here for 35 years; people have roots here.
audiences believe
We believe we're going to have big audiences.
beer fire may
Fermentation may have been a better invention than fire.
balls good hard pitches
They made some good pitches and we had some hard balls right at guys. That's baseball. That's the way it goes.
civilization mind needs
Civilization no longer needs to open up wilderness; it needs wilderness to help open up the still largely unexplored human mind.
land water land-and-water
Land and water are not really separate things, but they are separate words, and we perceive through words.