“ It's not that our family has no taste, it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent. Dave Eggers
“ He must trust, and he must have faith. And so he builds, because what is building, and rebuilding and rebuilding again, but an act of faith? Dave Eggers
“ This war has made racists of too many of the and too many of us, and it is the leadership in Khartoum that has stoked this fire, that has brought to the surface, and in some cases created from whole c… Dave Eggers
“ When you're in your twenties in a new city where no one's from here, we're all sort of orphans. The only people that you can count on our bunch of people that you work with and that you know. You're o… 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
“ 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… Dave Eggers
“ I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach'. Dave Eggers
“ Love is implicit in every connection. It should be. Thus when absent it makes us insane. (You Shall Know Our Velocity) Dave Eggers
“ McSweeney's as a publishing company is built on a business model that only works when we sell physical books. So we try to put a lot of effort into the design and production of the book-as-object. Dave Eggers
“ 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 creativ… Dave Eggers
“ To me, the print business model is so simple, where readers pay a dollar for all the content within, and that supports the enterprise. Dave Eggers
“ But while mum and dad were incredibly caring, it was also a very chaotic household where everyone fought about everything. So I know what it's like to internalize all that chaos. Dave Eggers
“ You treat a kid with respect and as an adult you talk to them as if they're smart people. But you don't throw at them the trappings of adulthood and you know, the darker stuff. Dave Eggers
“ But you know, there's something about the kids finishing their homework in a given day, working one-on-one, getting all this attention - they go home, they're finished. They don't stall, they don't do… Dave Eggers
“ I'm an amateur science enthusiast. I'm not even a professional enthusiast. I don't know anything I never even passed biology in high school. But I read the science section of the newspaper. Dave Eggers
“ I met a lot of great people in Saudi Arabia and I'd like to see them again. And I'd love to spend more time in the desert and in the mountains. I felt really at home there. Dave Eggers
“ Yousef had been lighthearted during his questions, but there was something very serious and sad under his smile, and Alan knew what it was. It was the knowledge that there would be no fighting, and th… 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
