Heather Stein

“Your life has been lived a hundred times. A thousand times. It's not all that great, really. Don't take it so seriously. Don't handle it so delicately.”
― Dave Eggers, You Shall Know Our Velocity!

“This is something Mark Twain, or Samuel Clemens wrote, or whatever: "To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is the basis of the American art.”
― Dave Eggers, You Shall Know Our Velocity!

“the observer is, more often than not, passive. writing chiefly about his or her surroundings, and the people he or she meets. The writer reacts, instead of acts. Well, i suppose they [travel writers] do act, in that they have to do the traveling, choose the destinations, and so forth, but again, largely they are observant cargo, being shuttled from place to place with notebook in hand.”
― Dave Eggers

“Stasis is itself criminal for those with the means to move.”
― Dave Eggers, You Shall Know Our Velocity!