“Mr. and Mrs. Foster are not my foster parents. Also, they’re not even married to each other. Mr. Foster is married to a different Mrs. Foster, and Mrs. Foster, the first Mrs. Foster, is married to a different Mr. Foster. And though I don’t know the second Mr. Foster, I heard he was a real asshole.”
“Whatever fosters militarism makes for barbarism; whatever fosters peace makes for civilization.”
“Nothing fosters courage like a clear grasp of grace... & nothing fosters fear like an ignorance of mercy”
“Mr. Franzen said he and Mr. Wallace, over years of letters and conversations about the ethical role of the novelist, had come to the joint conclusion that the purpose of writing fiction was “a way out of loneliness.”(NY Times article on the memorial service of David Foster Wallace.) ”
“Living on our planet requires a lot of imagination. Reading fosters it.”
“The value of goals is not in the future they describe, but the change in perception of reality they foster.”