Andrew Patten

“Forget so-called peer-pressure. It’s more like peer-hunger. No? We enter a spiritual puberty where we snap to the fact that the great transcendent horror is loneliness, excluded encagement in the self. Once we’ve hit this age, we will now give or take anything, wear any mask, to fit, be part-of, not be Alone, we young. ”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“That the people to be most frightened of are the people who are the most frightened.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“and so but anyway”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“That you will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest