"If, by the virtue of charity or the circumstance of desperation, you ever chance to spend a little time around a Substance-recovery halfway facility like Enfield MA's Ennet House, you will acquire many exotic new facts. ... That certain persons simply will not like you no matter what you do. ... That no matter how smart you thought you were, you are actually way less smart than that. ... That loneliness is not a function of solitude. ... That sometimes human beings just have to sit in a room and, like, hurt. That you will become way less concerned with what other people think about you when you realize how seldom they do. ... That 'acceptance' is usually more a matter of fatigue than anything else. ...That having sex with someone you do not care for feels lonlier than not having sex in the first place, afterward. That it is permisable to want."
-David Foster Wallace
Infinite Jest
p200-205
