Dave Eggers Quotes
I think there's a future where the Web and print coexist and they each do things uniquely and complement each other, and we have what could be the ultimate and best-yet array of journalistic venues.
The only thing that everyone needs to look out for is keeping the students reading through high school and thereafter.
But that in any city, in any cluster of people, there a few people who are awake at this hour, who are both awake and dancing, and it’s here that we need to be.
Hello Frances, I have just been to health class, and I was wondering how your feminine parts were developing.
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 these students.
All we really want is for no one to have a boring life, to be impressive, so we can be impressed. ~ on the friends we choose.
Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college.
When we pass by another person without telling them we love them it’s cruel and wrong and we all know this.
WHEN we don't get the results we want in our military endeavors, we don't blame the soldiers.
He must trust, and he must have faith. And so he builds, because what is building, and rebuilding and rebuilding again, but an act of faith?
How had this happened? Everyone in the world knew more than us, about everything, and this I hated then found hugely comforting.
Love is implicit in every connection. It should be. Thus when absent it makes us insane. (You Shall Know Our Velocity)
We would oppose the turning of the planet and refuse the setting of the sun.
We have no choice. We need the communion of souls and only here are they awake.
No. There is no balance, and no retribution, and no rules. The rules and balances you blather about are hopeful creations of a man fearing death.
I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach'.
McSweeney's as a publishing company is built on a business model that only works when we sell physical books. So we try to put a lot of effort into the design and production of the book-as-object.
You can't ever guess at life, at pain. All pain is real, and all pain is personal. It's the most personal thing we have. It eats each of us differently.
Once a year, she remembers that she is insignificant. Then she forgets agains, because more than she is insignificant, she is forgetful.
Every time my brain parks the car neatly in the driveway, my mouth drives through the back of the garage.
Good artists exist in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.
But what I really want is to just swim around in a warm baby pool of these friends, jump in their dry leaf pile-to rub them all over myself, without words and clothes.
But while mum and dad were incredibly caring, it was also a very chaotic household where everyone fought about everything. So I know what it's like to internalize all that chaos.
But I'm thinking about 12 things at once, a hundred thousand times a day. Most people do, I would imagine.
She felt some measure of relief knowing that in the very least, on the open road she would have some time to think.
He was feeling buoyant, flexible. He wanted to go jogging. He stood. He couldn't go jogging. He called room service and ordered a basket of breads and pastries.
Nothing again. No one is listening. No one is waiting to hear the kicking of a man above. It is unexpected. You have no ears for someone like me.
Everyone in the life before was cranky, I think, because they just wanted to know. --After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned
She pulls away, pats me on the shoulder with three mini-pats, like those used to pet reptiles.
The air is like being wanted, we say, and they nod approvingly. The air is like getting older, they say, and they touch our arms gently.
