I mean, all this stuff you're involved in, it's all gossip. It's people talking about each other behind their backs. That's the vast majority of this social media, all these reviews, all these comments. Your tools have elevated gossip, hearsay and conjecture to the level of valid, mainstream communication. And besides that, it's fucking dorky.

— Dave Eggers

I should probably get a stone. A stone would be good. A stone would save me, would salvage all the damage we had already done, all the things we had given up or lost.

— Dave Eggers

It is very much, she thinks, like looking at the moon and knowing one could make it there, too. It is only time and breath that stand between her and the top. She is young. She'll do it and have done it.

— Dave Eggers

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

— Dave Eggers

It was a broken world, I knew then, that would allow a boy such as me to bury a boy such as William K.

— Dave Eggers

It was called the Middle Ages, the Dark Ages. If not for the monks, everything the world had ever learned would have been lost. Well, we live in a similar time, when we're losing the vast majority of what we do and see and learn. But it doesn't have to be that way.

— Dave Eggers

It was just an idea I had, that it could be cool to have a book covered in fake fur.

— Dave Eggers

It was like setting up a guillotine in the public square. You don't expect a thousand people to line up to put their heads in it.

— Dave Eggers

I want to be seen. I want proof I existed.

— Dave Eggers

I was born into a town and a family and the town ad my family happened to me. I own none of it. It is everyone's. It is shareware. I like it, I like having been a part of it, I would kill or die to protect those who are part of it, but I do not claim exclusivity. Have it Taken it from me. Do with be what you will. Make it useful. This is like making electricity from dirt; it is almost too good to be believed, that we can make beauty from this stuff.

— Dave Eggers