My ATTACHMENT to my WEDDING RING is a POWERFUL symbol of the infinite LOVE that I have for my wife and children.

I REALISE that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to OPINIONS FREQUENTLY defended on the NATURE of numbers.

Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives WITHIN us; like virtue and the MORAL LAW it is a COMPANION of the soul.

The ultimate CREATIVE CAPACITY of the brain may be, for all PRACTICAL purposes, INFINITE.

We MUST learn to reawaken and keep ourselves AWAKE, not by mechanical AID, but by an infinite EXPECTATION of the dawn.

I suppose for me, with 'Djesse,' I REALIZED fairly early in the process that I ALSO needed a character to walk this path, which in some WAYS is me, and in some ways is not me. I think of Djesse a bit like the infinite child who can SEE everything and walk into everything as light as a feather and just alchemize.

We don't know why we are here and the context of our role in the UNIVERSE, and the thought of an INFINITE universe. It's SOMETHING the human MIND can't really grasp. It's statistically IMPOSSIBLE that there's not life on other planets.

God has levels of willing and delighting. He wills and delights in THINGS in different ways so that APPROVAL and disapproval can coexist without being CONTRADICTORY, without canceling each other out. I am MAKING the CASE here for infinite complexity.

Only by LIVING absurdly is it POSSIBLE to BREAK out of this INFINITE ABSURDITY.

Hope is the MAGIC carpet that transports US from the PRESENT moment into the realm of infinite POSSIBILITIES.

Roles are extremely finite, but HUMAN beings are INFINITE.

I'm SURE that LOVE EXISTS, EVEN infinite, eternal love.

Use your IMAGINATION, and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum LIVES are infinite in scope if you examine them with ENOUGH CARE.

For whatever reason, when it CAME out in 1995, 'Infinite Jest' became a cultural EVENT. It was the massive BOOK that was 'cool' for all the Gen Xers to READ.