Dave Eggers

"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"

"We are unusual and tragic and alive."

"Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this."

"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?"