Having lost people when they were young, you feel intimately acquainted with mortality, I guess. Though I procrastinate worse than anybody. — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Because I grew up with this naive expectation of people doing right, I get shocked by every little violation. — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Status in itself is criminal for those with the means to move, and the means to weave communion between people. — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
And there is a chance that everything we did was incorrect, but stasis is itself criminal for those with the means to… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
But Saudi Arabia is surprising in a lot of ways. Like any place, or any people, it relentlessly defies easy categorization. — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
You treat a kid with respect and as an adult you talk to them as if they're smart people. But you don't… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
I met a lot of great people in Saudi Arabia and I'd like to see them again. And I'd love to spend… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
But I'm thinking about 12 things at once, a hundred thousand times a day. Most people do, I would imagine. — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
We've become a nation of indoor cats, he'd said. A nation of doubters, worriers, overthinkers. Thank God these weren't the kind of… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Most people would trade everything they know, everyone they know- they'd trade it all to know they've been seen, and acknowledged, that… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
When you're in your twenties in a new city where no one's from here, we're all sort of orphans. The only people… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
If you want to write about people, you can make it up. But if you spend time talking to someone and examining… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
I'm never a fan of the sociopathic kind of reviewing, people who are sort of self-immolating and have social problems or whatever,… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Live long enough and you'll disappoint everyone. People think you're able to help them and usually you can't. And so it becomes… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
People say I talk slowly. I talk in a way sometimes called laconic. The phone rings, I answer, and people ask if… — 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… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Do not be critics, you people, I beg you. I was a critic and I wish I could take it all back… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
In all my life I'd never been approached this way, the car pulling up, the Where you going? It was something I… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
My mind, I know, I can prove, hovers on hummingbird wings. It hovers and it churns. And when it's operating at full… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
We're in an era where they've sanitized home life in movies to such a degree that there is a certain home life… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
I have no idea how people function without near-constant internal chaos. I'd lose my mind. — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
But that in any city, in any cluster of people, there a few people who are awake at this hour, who are… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
People are strange, but more than that, they're good. They're good first, then strange. — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Most people would trade everything they know, everyone they know- they'd trade it all to know they've been seen, and acknowledged, that… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
And that's actually the brunt of what we do is, people going straight from their workplace, straight from home, straight into the… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Up there we see everything, Oakland to the left, El Cerrito and Richmond to the right, Marin forward, over the Bay, Berkeley… — 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
