455 Quotes by Dave Eggers

I'm better than you think. I'm even better than I think I am.

I am a freak in secondhand velour, a leper who uses L'Oreal Anti-sticky Mega Gel. I am rootless, ripped from all foundations, an orphan raising an orphan and wanting to take away everything there is and replace it with stuff I've made.

Write your goddamned book now. The world awaits.

When we pass by another person without telling them we love them it’s cruel and wrong and we all know this.

No one’s forcing you to do this. You willingly tie yourself to these leashes. And you willingly become utterly socially autistic. You no longer pick up on basic human communication clues. You’re at a table with three humans, all of whom are looking at you and trying to talk to you, and you’re staring at a screen, searching for strangers in Dubai.

When anybody starts out with a memoir, you get the impulse to tell your own story with your own voice, and you get all that out in one fell swoop sometimes.

She felt some measure of relief knowing that in the very least, on the open road she would have some time to think.

There is travel and there are babies; everything else is drudgery and death.

Every story we remember is a novel. Novels make things more universal.