455 Quotes by Dave Eggers

So this is how they lived. For some time Theo, like a tree living in the shadow of taller trees, found a way to live off reflected light.

Through the smal tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the trees calligraphic.

What can one do with one's hands when the camera is interested in other things?

Existing, period – that is what drives men to irrational acts.

He's turned inside out, and is with the Sudanese to find out how to become right again.

But without William K, I would have forgotten that I had not been born on this journey. That I had lived before this.

Young men, come and blow things up.

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

But that's one lifetime."Yeah."But while doing that one I'd want to be able to have done other stuff. Whole other lives- the one where I sail-"I know, on a boat you made yourself.