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

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

— 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

It was just an idea I had, that it could be cool to have a book covered in fake fur.

— Dave Eggers

Every time I get through the work on a book of nonfiction, I say I'll never do it again; it takes so…

— Dave Eggers

Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.

— Dave Eggers

I always like the idea of doing interviews with somebody but completely seriously not ever mentioning what that person is generally known…

— Dave Eggers

Most people would trade everything they know, everyone they know- they'd trade it all to know they've been seen, and acknowledged, that…

— Dave Eggers

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

One might think that a boy who was out in the snow for so long would get cold, but Max was not.…

— Dave Eggers

“Likewise, everyone at the Circle there had been chosen, and thus the gene pool was extraordinary, the brainpower phenomenal. It was a…

— Dave Eggers

This boy thinks I am not of his species, that I am some other kind of creature, one that can be crushed…

— Dave Eggers

“Toph looks at me. I nod gravely. In this world, in our new world, there will be rocking. We will pay tribute…

— Dave Eggers

“You don’t know what it’s like to be a man over thirty who’s never had anything happen to him. You spend so…

— Dave Eggers

In hospitals I feel palpable comfort. I feel the competence, the expertise, so much education and money, all of the supplies sterile,…

— Dave Eggers

“ How do you know this? Because I'm always watching people. When I watch people I too look through them. I learned…

— Dave Eggers

People say I talk slowly. I talk in a way sometimes called laconic. The phone rings, I answer, and people ask if…

— Dave Eggers

Every time a crime was committed by a Muslim, that person's faith was mentioned, regardless of its relevance. When a crime is…

— Dave Eggers

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

“You don’t propose marriage after one date. You don’t decide on a career after one article or class session. You don’t cast…

— Dave Eggers

“Why would you need a ship, Max? You're thinking of leaving already?" No, no," Max said. "This would be just for fun.…

— Dave Eggers

“Don't listen to me. Advice so rarely finds its inteded audience. It's like the sword in the stone — you leave it…

— Dave Eggers

“When my parents passed on, and we read their wills, we discovered something we didn’t at all expect, especially from our devoutly…

— 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…

— Dave Eggers

“We gravitate toward comfort, Josie thought, but it must be rationed. Give us one-third comfort and two-thirds chaos—that is balance.”

— Dave Eggers

“I just said, ‘I hope she can get by with a salary of sixty thousand dollars.’ ”

— Dave Eggers

“Young men need to be kept away from guns, bombs, women, cars, hard alcohol and heavy machinery.”

— Dave Eggers

I need eight hours to get maybe 20 minutes of work done. I had one of those yesterday: seven hours of self-loathing.

— Dave Eggers

I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time…

— Dave Eggers

“This is why Max loved Mr. Beckmann: he was an equal. He seemed to have navigated his way through seven or so…

— Dave Eggers

“It seemed the whole world knew this person named Diana, and if the world knew her, the connection between the peoples of…

— Dave Eggers

“Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves. And it's fleeting and incredibly mercurial. And subjective. So…

— Dave Eggers

We feel that to reveal embarrassing or private things, we have given someone something, that, like a primitive person fearing that a…

— Dave Eggers

“I know forever they will be in my house, the rooms of my mind, I know this and I have accepted this…

— Dave Eggers

“Maybe if he was the sort of man who could eat someone else's hash browns, who the hotel wanted to impress so…

— 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

“Creationist? Well, no, it’s not creationist either. The point is that we are probably a bit less top-to-bottom thorough than, say, the…

— Dave Eggers

“We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible…

— Dave Eggers

But while mum and dad were incredibly caring, it was also a very chaotic household where everyone fought about everything. So I…

— Dave Eggers