Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this. — 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
It was called the Middle Ages, the Dark Ages. If not for the monks, everything the world had ever learned would have… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
To me any given story has its appropriate form. There might be some story I get involved with that's begging to be… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
I worked at Salon.com way back when they started, and there's just unmeasurable value to distributing words online, too, but I still… — 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
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
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
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
There's nothing to be gained from passive observance, the simple documenting of conditions, because, at its core, it sets a bad example.… — 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
