Author of quotes: Dave Eggers

- You know, a few years ago, I got an idea: I decided that for my life I will try to learn all people on Earth. Every single one, at least a little bit. Shake hands, say Hello. And when it dawned on me, I decided that really I can. You know what it is an appealing plan?
- Absolutely, ' said Mae.
But on a planet of seven billion people! And I've done the math. Long twisted spit, the result came out like this: if I spend three seconds per person, will be twenty people in a minute. One thousand two hundred per hour! Not bad, huh? But at this pace for a year, I know only 10 512 000 people. At this rate, my familiarity with all need 665 years. How sad is that?

In the entire history of mankind there was not a beautiful death.

Yes, people are strange creatures, but especially good. First and foremost, is good, and what is strange is secondary.

Many of us sleep with the TV on (though some only during the night in a hotel). But why are we doing this, why we did it as a child? Why, when we were little, we was calmer sleep directly under a dining table where guests sit? Or on the sofa with upholstery biting, at hand from older people who are watching a movie? Perhaps the fact that sleep is a separation from reality. Scared of falling into the unknown, when there's no one there.