455 Quotes by 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 much out of you.

Humans are divided between those who can still look through the eyes of youth and those who cannot.

So this is the space during tutoring hours. It's very busy. Same principles: one-on-one attention, complete devotion to the students' work and a boundless optimism and sort of a possibility of creativity and ideas.

At that moment I was sure. That I belonged in my skin. That my organs were mine and my eyes were mine and my ears, which could only hear the silence of this night and my faint breathing, were mine, and I loved them and what they could do.

And that's actually the brunt of what we do is, people going straight from their workplace, straight from home, straight into the classroom and working directly with the students. So then we're able to work with thousands and thousands more students.

The only infallible truth of our lives is that everything we love in life will be taken from us.

But I'm thinking about 12 things at once, a hundred thousand times a day. Most people do, I would imagine.

Be strong, be brave, be true. Endure.

Why did we do that to Pluto? We had it good with Pluto.