The End of the Tour

David Foster Wallace: "I'm not so sure you want to be me."
David Lipsky: "I don't."

"This piece would be so much better if it was just you. Just keep talking, you'll save me a lot of trouble."

David Lipsky: "Nice view."
David Foster Wallace: "Thank you. I can't take credit for it."

"He wants more than he has. I want precisely what he already has."

!It may be what in the old days was called a spiritual crisis or whatever. It's just the feeling as though the entire, every axiom of your life turned out to be false, and there was actually nothing, and you were nothing, and it was all a delusion. And that you were better than everyone else because you saw that it was a delusion, and yet you were worse because you couldn't function."

"Well, I think being shy basically means being self-absorbed to the extent that it makes it difficult to be around other people."