I cannot count the times I have cursed our lack of urgency. If I ever — Dave Eggers

"I speak to these people, and I speak to you because I cannot help it. It gives me strength, almost unbelievable strength, to know that you are there. I covet your eyes, your ears, the collapsible space between us. How blessed are we to have each other? I am alive and you are alive so we must fill the air with our words. I will fill today, tomorrow, every day until I am taken back to God. I will tell stories to people who will listen and to people who don’t want to listen, to people who seek me out and to those who run. All the while I will know that you are there. How can I pretend that you do not exist? It would be almost as impossible as you pretending that I do not exist."

"There are people who meet strangers and people, like me, who know only those they’ve known from birth"

"You and yours at the Circle, youre gonna save all the souls. Youre gonna get everyone in one place, youre gonna teach them all the same things. There can only be one morality, one set of rules. Imagine! Now all humans will have the eyes of God. You know this passage? All things are naked and opened unto the eyes of God. Something like that. You know your Bible? Now were all God. Every one of us will soon be able to see, and cast judgment upon, every other. Well see what He sees. Well articulate His judgment. Well channel His wrath and deliver His forgiveness. On a constant and global level. All religion has been waiting for this, when every human is a direct and immediate messenger of Gods will. Do you see what Im saying?"

"Its not that Im not social. Im social enough. But the tools you guys create actually manufacture unnaturally extreme social needs. No one needs the level of contact youre purveying. It improves nothing. Its not nourishing. Its like snack food. You know how they engineer this food? They scientifically determine precisely how much salt and fat they need to include to keep you eating. Youre not hungry, you dont need the food, it does nothing for you, but you keep eating these empty calories. This is what youre pushing. Same thing. Endless empty calories, but the digital-social equivalent. And you calibrate it so its equally addictive."

"— Mr. Churchill you were given a mission. — Yes — I want to have been given your mission. I want your place in world events, the centrality of it. You were born in the cradle of a catapult! — You are wrong. I found my mission. — I disagree. — If you must. — Tell me: where is my mission? Where are my bunkers and trenches, my goddamn Gallipoli?"

"Ooh, look at me, I’m Dave, I’m writing a book! With all my thoughts in it. La la la!"

"The wound is the place where the Light enters you."

"yes is a pleasant country... love is a deeper season than reason"

"true lovers in each happening of their hearts live longer than all which and every who"

"What concerns me fundamentaly is a meteoric burlesk melodrama, born of the immemorial adage love will find a way."

"Who made you glorious as the gates of heaven Beneath the keen full moon? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flower Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet? God! let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer! and let the ice-plains echo, God! God! sing, ye meadow-streams, with gladsome voice! Ye pine-groves, with your soft and soul-like sounds! And they too have a voice, yon piles of snow, And in their perilous fall shall thunder, God!"

"Unchanged within, to see all changed without, Is a blank lot and hard to bear, no doubt. Yet why at others Wanings shouldst thou fret? Then only mightst thou feel a just regret, Hadst thou withheld thy love or hid thy light In selfish forethought of neglect and slight."