"There is no larger good than your own good and your own happiness … The root, in English, of “addict” is the Latin “addicere” which means religious devotion … there is an element in the book in which various people are living out something that I think is true, which is that we all worship, and we all have a religious impulse, we can choose to an extant what we worship, but the myth that we worship nothing and give ourselves away to nothing simply sets ourselves up to give ourselves away to something different. For instance pleasure, or drugs, or the idea of having a lot of money and buying lots of nice stuff."
— David Foster Wallace reflecting on Infinite Jest and life in an interview with ZDF.
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