Dave Eggers Quotes

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.

The Earth is an animal that shakes off its fleas when they dig too deep, bite too hard.

You see pictures of Buddha and he’s sitting, reclining, at peace. The Hindus have their twelve-armed elephant god, who also seems so content but not powerless. But leave it to Christians to have a dead and bloody man nailed to a cross.

Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.

You and I read the same books and hear the same sermons and we come away with different messages. That has to be evidence of some serious problem, right?

No. There is no balance, and no retribution, and no rules. The rules and balances you blather about are hopeful creations of a man fearing death.

His lies were so exquisite I almost wept.

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 only as good as the reliability of that latticework.