Stories Quotes by Dave Eggers

“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

“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

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

“One button for the rest of your life online.”

— Dave Eggers

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

I think I'm far too hopeful and trusting. That's something I got from my mum.

— Dave Eggers

“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

“Have we wasted precious space dust on you?”

— Dave Eggers

“What can one do with one's hands when the camera is interested in other things?”

— Dave Eggers

“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

Write your goddamned book now. The world awaits.

— Dave Eggers

The only infallible truth of our lives is that everything we love in life will be taken from us.

— Dave Eggers

“First of all: I am tired. I am true of heart! And Also: You are tired. You are true of heart!”

— Dave Eggers

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

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