455 Quotes by Dave Eggers

I often cannot believe the things I do.

My head was a condemned church with a ceiling of bats, but I swung from this dark mood to euphoria when I thought about leaving.

Most people would trade everything they know, everyone they know- they'd trade it all to know they've been seen, and acknowledged, that they might even be remembered. We all know the world is too big for us to be significant. So all we have is the hope of being seen, or heard, even for a moment.

Every time a crime was committed by a Muslim, that person's faith was mentioned, regardless of its relevance. When a crime is committed by a Christian, do they mention his religion? ... When a crime is committed by a black man, it's mentioned in the first breath: 'An African American man was arrested today...' But what about German Americans? Anglo Americans? A white man robs a convenience store and do we hear he's of Scottish descent? In no other instance is the ancestry mentioned.

I'm interested in the human impact of the giant foot of misplaced government. After all, we encounter it every day.

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

We feel that to reveal embarrassing or private things, we have given someone something, that, like a primitive person fearing that a photographer will steal his soul, we identify our secrets, our past and their blotches, with our identity, that revealing our habits or losses or deeds somehow makes one less of oneself.

I had grown up as a fan of Studs Terkel. In Chicago he sort of looms large and is mentioned often.

I had the sensation that I might always be running like this, that I would always have to run, and that I would always be able to run.