455 Quotes by Dave Eggers

If you think I'm annoying and preachy now, you should have known me in grade school.

How many times in life can we make decisions that are important but will not hurt anyone? Are we obligated- maybe we are- to say yes to any choice when no one will be hurt? We use the word hurt when talking about things like this because when these things go wrong it can feel as if you were hit in the sternum by a huge animal that's run for miles just to strike you.

Hello Frances, I have just been to health class, and I was wondering how your feminine parts were developing.

Better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than in the middle of some ladder you don’t, right?

Here is a drawing of a stapler:

Morning comes like a scream through a pinhole.

We lose weeks like buttons, like pencils.

I need eight hours to get maybe 20 minutes of work done. I had one of those yesterday: seven hours of self-loathing.

He remained, weeks after awakening, in that period of early-morning consciousness that allows easy re-entry to dreaming. His limbs still tingled with the residue of sleep, and most days he wanted badly to allow it to overtake him again.