Tracee

“Some persons can give themselves away to an ambitious pursuit and have that be all the giving-themselves-away-to-something they need to do. Though sometimes this changes as the players get older and the pursuit more stress-fraught. American experience seems to suggest that people are virtually unlimited in their need to give themselves away, on various levels. Some just prefer to do it in secret.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“Everyone should get at least one good look at the eyes of a man who finds himself rising toward what he wants to pull down to himself.”
― David Foster Wallace

“Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“I threw it down the air shaft. There's a concrete floor below.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead