Dave Eggers

The house is a factory.

— Dave Eggers

“Director of Ensuring the Future”

— Dave Eggers

We are unusual and tragic and alive.

— Dave Eggers

“I live because I do not exist.”

— Dave Eggers

It is no way to live, to wait to love.

— Dave Eggers

“ Young men, come and blow things up. ”

— Dave Eggers

Be strong, be brave, be true. Endure.

— Dave Eggers

“Every fucking suburb has a SWAT team.”

— Dave Eggers

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

— Dave Eggers

“my feeling is that if you're not self-obsessed you're probably boring.”

— Dave Eggers

“She’d collapsed at her desk, was found on the floor, catatonic,”

— Dave Eggers

Write your goddamned book now. The world awaits.

— Dave Eggers

“There has not been a beautiful death in the history of mankind.”

— Dave Eggers

A combination of acting, lying, begging, and cheating.

— Dave Eggers

We are all feeding from each other, all the time, every day.

— Dave Eggers

When you adapt a book, you really have to cut it to the essence.

— Dave Eggers

“Look at us, goddammit, the two of us slingshotted from the back side of the moon, greedily cartwheeling toward everything we are…

— Dave Eggers

“This is the peculiar problem of constant connectivity: any silence of more than a few hours provokes apocalyptic thoughts.”

— Dave Eggers

Loneliness is just a thing that I'm not personally interested in. So far, it hasn't been on my docket of things to…

— Dave Eggers

Nothing again. No one is listening. No one is waiting to hear the kicking of a man above. It is unexpected. You…

— Dave Eggers

“You and I read the same books and hear the same sermons and we come away with different messages. That has to…

— Dave Eggers

Everyone in the life before was cranky, I think, because they just wanted to know. --After I Was Thrown in the River…

— Dave Eggers

“People don't like to be kept away from what they want. Especially when it appears within their reach. It makes one doubly…

— Dave Eggers

If you don't want anyone to know about your existence, you might as well kill yourself. You're taking up space, air.

— Dave Eggers

“You willingly tie yourself to these leashes. And you willingly become utterly socially autistic. You no longer pick up on basic human…

— Dave Eggers

“The water was not God. The water undulating slightly with the waves unformed was not spiritual. It was jagged cold water and…

— Dave Eggers

“What he had was a sense that few things mattered much. That few people are to be feared. And so he now…

— Dave Eggers

“But while Sasha told us that in America even the most successful men can have but one wife at once--my father had…

— Dave Eggers

But what I really want is to just swim around in a warm baby pool of these friends, jump in their dry…

— Dave Eggers

Again the greatest use of a human was to be useful. Not to consume, not to watch, but to do something for…

— Dave Eggers

“Who were these people, all of them young couples, a few fabulous ones, tall thin-haired blondes with toned men in perfectly pressed…

— Dave Eggers

“The author would also like to acknowledge makers of comic book villains and superheroes, those who invented, or at least popularized, the…

— Dave Eggers

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

“The world, every day, is New. Only for those born in, say, 1870 or so, can there be a meaningful use of…

— Dave Eggers

To me, the print business model is so simple, where readers pay a dollar for all the content within, and that supports…

— Dave Eggers

The voice of the nickly reflection of the moon was not as deep as you might expect. It was a singer’s voice,…

— 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…

— Dave Eggers

“If things continue this way, there will be two societies - or at least I hope there will be two - the…

— Dave Eggers

The key thing is, even if you only have a couple of hours a month, those two hours shoulder-to-shoulder, next to one…

— Dave Eggers

“A soldier lives . . . ”   A soldier lives a soldier dies a military chaplain sighs   a flag is folded someone cries a…

— Dave Eggers