Jerrod Langston

“you can't keep the thoughts from popping in there. The thing they try to teach you is just to Let Them Go, the thoughts. Let them come as they will, but do not Entertain them.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“Temporary madness makes it possible to forget the truth about bullets. Temporary madness, in war, is bravery's sister.
But when you seem crazy all the time, continuously, without stopping, that's when you make people afraid, even your war brothers. And that's when you stop being the brave one, the death-defier, and become instead the true friend of death, its accomplice, its more-than-brother.”
― David Diop, At Night All Blood is Black

“It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase. It just did it way more well than wisely”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“No! No! Any conversation or interchange is better than none at all, to trust him on this, that the worst kind of gut-wrenching intergenerational interface is better than withdrawal or hiddenness on either side.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest