A funny thing happened on the way to utopia: We've turned into this surveillance society and become a race of spies, where we track our kids and we track our spouses and we track our friends. I think very soon there will be an obsolescence of trust, because it's much easier to access a person's location than it is to ask - or to trust.
Dave EggersI've always been interested in the form itself, so I always feel like I've never been good at going ahead with the artifice and not acknowledging the self in the artistic process, and not acknowledging the absurdity of pretending that's required in fiction.
Dave EggersThe voice of the nickly reflection of the moon was not as deep as you might expect. It was a singerโs voice, though, a tenor, one that loved itself without reservation. โI feel time like you dream. Your dreams are jumbled. You canโt remember the order of your dreams, and when you recall them, the memories bend. Faces change. Itโs all in puddles and ripples. Thatโs what time is for me.
Dave EggersMaybe he hadn't thought the war through. It had seemed like simple fun when he had first pictured it, with a glorious beginning, a difficult but valor-filled middle, and a victorious end. He hadn't accounted for the fact that there might not be much of a resolution to the battle, and he hadn't imagined what it would feel like when the war just sort of ended, without anyone admitting defeat and congratulating him for his bravery.
Dave Eggers