Dave Eggers

People are strange, but more than that, they're good. They're good first, then strange.

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

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.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.