“Rachel got up and did this happy little shuffle, like she was some cheerful farmer chick who'd just stepped outside to find… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“All over now. He is either in joy or nothingness. (So why grieve? The worst of it, for him, is over.) Because… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Then I'm a paunchy guy in a room, with a note pinned to his sleeve: "You were alone in the world," it… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
In a story, for example, you'll start off with a character who is a little bit of a cartoon. That's not satisfying… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Her hair looked like her hair in the dream and her eyes looked like her eyes in the dream, and as for… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“When a child is lost there is no end to the self-torment a parent may inflict. When we love, and the object… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“I guess you just have to trust your kids, trust that their innate interest in life will win out in the end,… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Every human is born of man and woman. Every human, at birth, is, or at least has the potential to be, beloved… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Do all the other things, of course, the ambitious things — travel, get rich, get famous, innovate, lead, fall in love, make… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
A sort of fearlessness - the notion that a person could be comfortable with (even interested in) whatever arises. I sure can't… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“and that feeling, that feeling of being accepted back again and again, of someone’s affection for you expanding to encompass whatever new… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
If you really think back to the great writers, there's a lot of happiness in Tolstoy; there's a lot of love, there's… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I say yes to the hot bath and the sandwich - to getting ourselves into the best possible mental shape to identify… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“For until we are ended, “never” may not be truly said. jack “malarkey” fuller And love may yet be ours. gene “rascal”… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Which maybe that’s what love was: liking someone how he was and doing things to help him get even better.” — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The word 'funny' is a bit like the word 'love' - we don't have enough words to describe the many varieties. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Vonnegut's war was necessary. And yet it was massacre and screaming and confusion and blood and death. It was the mammoth projection… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“You know that feeling at the end of the day, when the anxiety of that-which-I-must-do falls away and, for maybe the first… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Do all the other things, the ambitious things-travel, get rich, get famous, innovate, lead, fall in love, make and lose fortunes...but as… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
We have to move toward specificity, intelligence, facts, proof, and mutual affection. What I think people have to do now is be… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I don't like that new age posture where you kind of tilt your head. I don't like that posture right now. I… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
My heartfelt wish for you: as you get older, your self will diminish and you will grow in love. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“One feels such love for the little ones, such anticipation that all that is lovely in life will be known by them,… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Success is like a mountain in front of you that keeps growing. If you're not careful, it will take up your whole life. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Wow wow wow is all I can say! Remember how I always buy lunchtime Scratch-Off ticket? Have I said? Maybe did not say? Well,… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“None of it was real; nothing was real. Everything was real; inconceivably real, infinitely dear. These and all things started as nothing, latent within… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“We must see God not as a Him (some linear rewarding fellow) but an IT, a great beast beyond our understanding, who wants something… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
America, to me, should be shouting all the time, a bunch of shouting voices, most of them wrong, some of them nuts, but please,… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
In my case, when I am trying to be "kind" I often default in a sort of toothless loving-all stance that is, actually, not… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Whatever your supposed politics are - left, right - if you put it in a human connection, most people will rise to the occasion… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“A Clinton staffer tells me his theory. Think about Frank Sinatra, he says: born to sing. Think about Willie Mays: born to play ball.… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“You were torturing a cat," she says. "With a freaking prod." "A prod I built myself in metal shop," he says. "But of course… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Rachel got up and did this happy little shuffle, like she was some cheerful farmer chick who'd just stepped outside to find the hick… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
What America is, to me, is a guy doesn't want to buy, you let him not buy, you respect his not buying. A guy… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
