Dave Eggers Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them. What Is the What

2. I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love. What Is the What

3. These people have already attained, at whatever age, a degree of celebrity you a--holes will never reach, and you feel, deep down, that because there is no life before or after this, that fame is, essentially, God -- all you people know that, believe it, even if you don't admit it. As children you watched him, in the basement, cross-legged in front of the TV, and you thought you should be him, that his lines were yours, that his spot on Battle of the Network Stars was yours, that you'd be so good on the obstacle course - you'd win for sure! So doing all this, when he's no longer such the world-conquering celebrity, gives you power over him, the ability to embarrass him, to equalize the terrible imbalance you feel about your relationship to those who project their charisma directly, not sublimated through snarky little magazines. You and everyone like you, with your Q&As or columns or Web sites - you all want to be famous, you want to be rock stars, but you're stuck in this terrible bind, where you also want to be thought of as smart, legitimate, permanent. So you do your little thing, are read by your little coterie, while secretly seething about the Winona Ryders and Ethan Hawkes. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

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

5. How had this happened? Everyone in the world knew more than us, about everything, and this I hated then found hugely comforting. You Shall Know Our Velocity!

6. If you don't want anyone to know about your existence, you might as well kill yourself. You're taking up space, air. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius