a) David Foster Wallace states in “This is Water” that “everything in my own immediate

experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe” (53).
b) Wallace states in “This is Water” that “it is extremely difficult to stay alert and attentive,
instead of getting hypnotized by the constant monologue inside your own head” (54).
c) Wallace hits the nail on the head when he states in “This is Water” how it is that” most of
these suicides are actually dead long before they pull the trigger” (54).
d) David Foster Wallace in his commencement speech “This is Water” says that “The capital-T
Truth is about life BEFORE death” (59).