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.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.

A lot of our writers, like Conan O'Brien, moved on to other things.

I'm awkward at these things. Just being nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Karate Kid was a real surprise and I was a little uncomfortable.