455 Quotes by Dave Eggers

I am a bike enthusiast; there’s a certain amount of romance to bikes. They’re both beautiful and utilitarian.

WHEN we don’t get the results we want in our military endeavors, we don’t blame the soldiers.

Everyone in the life before was cranky, I think, because they just wanted to know. – After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned.

Every part of my body felt electric. My chest ached and my head throbbed with the great terrible limitless possibility of the morning, and when it came, the sky was washed white, everything was new, and I hadn’t slept at all.

I hung up the phone, jubilant, and threw myself into a wall, then pretended to be getting electrocuted. I do this when I’m very happy.

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.

We knew nothing; the gaps in our knowledge were random and annoying. They were potholes – they could be patched but they multiplied without pattern or remorse. And even if we knew something, had read something, were almost sure of something, we wouldn’t ever know the truth, or come anywhere close to it. The truth had to be seen. Anything else was a story, entertaining but more embroidered fib than crude, shapeless fact.

So many people who wanted no part of all this. That’s what’s new. There used to be the option of opting out. But now that’s over. Completion is the end. We’re closing the circle around everyone – it’s a totalitarian nightmare.

Money is ephemeral, moving from person to person, it’s a tool. Don’t let it get into your heart or soul.