Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The one thing that really should be said about David Foster Wallace is that this was a once-in-a-century talent,” says his friend and former editor Colin Harrison. “We may never see a guy like this again in our lifetimes — that I will shout out. He was like a comet flying by at ground level.
The Lost Years & Last Days of David Foster Wallace : Rolling Stone