Dave Eggers

“What is building, and rebuilding and rebuilding again, but an act of faith?”

— Dave Eggers

“Money is ephemeral, moving from person to person, it's a tool. Don't let it get into your heart or soul.”

— Dave Eggers

I don't mean to beat a made-in-America drum, but I would be lying if I said it doesn't feel somehow right to…

— Dave Eggers

The pain is not great. But the symbolism is disagreeable.

— Dave Eggers

“The woman serving me was wearing a white sports bra that looked like it had been mauled by tigers--desert isle chic. ”

— Dave Eggers

If your hand doesn't work for it, your heart doesn't feel sorry for it.

— 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

I really believe strongly that kids should be spared the runoff of their parents' lives and problems.

— Dave Eggers

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

— Dave Eggers

You know how you finish a bag of chips and you hate yourself? You know you’ve done nothing good for yourself. That’s…

— Dave Eggers

“The idea we came up with, well before we left, was something we coined Performance Literature. Excuse the use of that second…

— Dave Eggers

“I worry about exposing him to bands like Journey, the appreciation of which will surely bring him nothing but the opprobrium of…

— Dave Eggers

Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.

— Dave Eggers

“The flash opened up into something larger, an even more blasphemous notion that her brain contained too much. That the volume of…

— Dave Eggers

“Everything within takes place after Jack died and before my mom and I drowned in a burning ferry in the cool tannin-tinted…

— Dave Eggers

“But I'm a believer in the perfectibility of human beings. I think we can be better. I think we can be perfect…

— Dave Eggers

“He was warm, partly because he had on many layers, and partly because boys whoa re part wolf and part wind do…

— Dave Eggers

We've lost that very simple transaction that's so pure, where a reader can say, "I support what you're doing, here's my dollar.…

— Dave Eggers

“The elevator reads your ID, and then says hello.”

— Dave Eggers

It's so easy to print in the Midwest. You're saving months in shipping and customs, so we have started printing a number…

— Dave Eggers

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

— Dave Eggers

Also, I need deadlines, just like everybody else, especially coming from magazines, newspapers, and stuff like that. I need daily or weekly…

— Dave Eggers

We have advantages. We have a cushion to fall back on. This is abundance. A luxury of place and time. Something rare…

— Dave Eggers

“You will die, and when you die, you will know a profound lack of it [dignity]. It's never dignified, always brutal. What's…

— Dave Eggers

I hung up the phone, jubilant, and threw myself into a wall, then pretended to be getting electrocuted. I do this when…

— Dave Eggers