“I feel like a parent whose children prefer to stay inside and watch TV. The father pleads, "It's a beautiful day. Why… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“Two chubby, expressionless boys stand to my right. They were once cute children, but now I imagine that they spend hours in… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
I really believe strongly that kids should be spared the runoff of their parents' lives and problems. — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“I worry about exposing him to bands like Journey, the appreciation of which will surely bring him nothing but the opprobrium of… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“Kit, you know the key to relating to your parents now? It’s mercy. Children, when they become teenagers and then young adults,… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
But there was something psychological happening there that was just a little bit different. And the other thing was, there was no… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“This was Josie’s preferred method of parenting: go someplace like this, with grand scale and much to be discovered, and watch your… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Some of these kids just don't plain know how good they are: how smart and how much they have to say. You… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“This was the common criminal pursuit of all contemporary humankind. Give my child an Ikea desk and twelve hours a day of… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
But of course there's no logic to San Francisco generally, a city built with putty and pipe cleaners, rubber cement and colored… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“Max had to think about these new developments. He hadn't liked getting hit by a rock--his stomach still ached from then rock… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“Did children want sports cars for parents? No. They wanted Hondas. They wanted to know that the car would start in all… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
I like the dark part of the night, after midnight and before four-thirty, when it's hollow, when ceilings are harder and farther… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
The raising of a child is the building of a cathedral. You can't cut corners. — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“My plans are a jumble for now, but I do know certain things that I will and will not do. [...] I… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“4. THE CRUMBLING WALL (Hamburger, prepared medium well, with bacon and barbecue sauce. Courtesy of that place on Solano, where, it should be mentioned,… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“LOW-FLYING, QUICK-MOVING CLOUDS: I haven't long to live. TREETOPS, ROUNDED AND ROUGH: That's probably true. LOW-FLYING, QUICK-MOVING CLOUDS: I won't even make it to… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
But the grind has begun. The windows don’t open, and even the availability of near-constant jokes about Jews and Mormons fails to stem the… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
We feel that to reveal embarrassing or private things, we have given someone something, that, like a primitive person fearing that a photographer will… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
I think I'm far too hopeful and trusting. That's something I got from my mum. — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“Overnight, all comment boards became civil, all posters held accountable. The trolls, who had more or less overtaken the internet, were driven back into… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“What can one do with one's hands when the camera is interested in other things?” — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“The money that could have saved the Shuttle, and the money we send to random countries, that we use to remake unchangeable countries ten… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
The only infallible truth of our lives is that everything we love in life will be taken from us. — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
