455 Quotes by Dave Eggers

That must drive you insa – Oh please. What would a brain do if not these sorts of exercises? I have no idea how people function without near-constant internal chaos. I’d lose my mind.

The author would also like to acknowledge makers of comic book villains and superheroes, those who invented, or at least popularized, the notion of the normal, mild-mannered person transformed into a mutant by freak accident.

You know, it’s been proven that 35 to 40 hours a year with one-on-one attention, a student can get one grade level higher.

I didn’t care anymore what my ancestors would think. We were the Red Army and needed to eat.

There were twenty-five million people in Yemen and at least thirteen million guns – after the United States, it was, per capita the world’s most armed nation. Men wore AKs walking down the sreet. They brought them to weddings.

Their howls rose to the sky and twisted together until they were on, and the other beasts joined in too, all of their voices creating a wild, plaintive song of sorry and abandon and anger and love.

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.

It’s not that our family has no taste, it’s just that our family’s taste is inconsistent.

Grief doesn’t arrive on schedule, as much as we’d like to.