“Because secrets do not increase in value if kept in a gore-ian lockbox, because one's past is either made useful or else mutates and becomes cancerous. We share things for the obvious reasons: it makes us feel un-alone, it spreads… — 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
“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
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
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
I think I'm far too hopeful and trusting. That's something I got from my mum. — Dave Eggers Copy Share
“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
“What can one do with one's hands when the camera is interested in other things?” — Dave Eggers Copy Share
“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
The only infallible truth of our lives is that everything we love in life will be taken from us. — Dave Eggers Copy Share
“First of all: I am tired. I am true of heart! And Also: You are tired. You are true of heart!” — Dave Eggers Copy Share
And what we were trying to offer every day was one-on-one attention. The goal was to have a one-to-one ratio with every one of… — Dave Eggers Copy Share
Suffering is only suffering if it’s done in silence, in solitude. Pain experienced in public, in view of loving millions, was no longer pain.… — Dave Eggers Copy Share
