Biography Author David Foster Wallace on Ambition and Perfectionism “If your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything.” – David Foster Wallace Interview by Leonard Lopate, WNYC March 4, 1996 Interview originally aired on the Leonard Lopate Show http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/1996… Executive Producer: David Gerlach Animator: Patrick Smith Share This Previous Article'McCULLIN' Takes You Into the Hell of War Through the Eyes of a Photojournalist Next ArticleAndy Kaufman Wrestles Jimmy Hart at the Nashville Fairgrounds April 28, 2013