The only infallible truth of our lives is that everything we love in life will be taken from us.
Dave EggersBut the grind has begun. The windows donโt open, and even the availability of near-constant jokes about Jews and Mormons fails to stem the tide of frustration, decay. Weโve reached the end of pure inspiration, and are now somewhere else, something implying routine, or doing something because people expect us to do it, going somewhere each day because we went there the day before, saying things because we have said them before, and this seems like the work of a different sort of animal, contrary to our plan, and this is very very bad.
Dave EggersGood artists exist in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.
Dave EggersSo I should be aware of the dangers of self-consciousness, but at the same time, Iโll be plowing through the fog of all these echoes, plowing through mixed metaphors, noise, and will try to show the core, which is still there, as a core, and is valid, despite the fog. The core is the core is the core. There is always the core, that canโt be articulated. Only caricatured.
Dave EggersIn all my life I'd never been approached this way, the car pulling up, the Where you going? It was something I wish had happened hundreds of times. I was a looker - someone who looked over at every car at every traffic light, hoping something would happen, and almost never finding anyone looking back - always everyone looking forwards, and every time I felt stupid. Why should people look at you? Why should they care?
Dave Eggers