“ 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 has a crazy notion different from your crazy notion, you pat him on the back and say, Hey p… George Saunders
“ You were torturing a cat, she says. With a freaking prod.A prod I built myself in metal shop, he says. But of course you never mention that. George Saunders
“ Mr. A calls me into his office and says he's got bad news and bad news, and which do I want first. I say the bad news. George Saunders
“ A culture capable of imagining complexly is a humble culture. It acts, when it has to act, as late in the game as possibl, and as cautiously, because it knows its girth and the tight confines of the c… George Saunders
“ The cool parts - the parts that have won Dubai its reputation as 'the Vegas of the Middle East' or 'the Venice of the Middle East' or 'the Disney World of the Middle East, if Disney World were the siz… George Saunders
“ I say it must have been great to grow up when men were men. He says men have always been what the are now, namely incapable of coping with life without the intervention of God the Almighty. Then in th… George Saunders
“ What good the prophet in the wilderness may do is incremental and personal. It's good for us to hear someone speak the irrational truth. It's good for us when, in spite of all of the sober, pragmatic,… George Saunders
“ We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish. George Saunders
“ I wander cowboy sidewalks of wood, wearing a too-small hat, filled with remorse for the many lives I failed to lead. George Saunders
“ 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, every Friday, to reward self for good week, I stop at store near home, treat… George Saunders
“ I took me to the Banks of the River, and tarried there awhile, as the lowering Sun made one with the Water, giving generously of Itself & its Diverse Colors, in a Splay of Magnificence that preceded a… George Saunders
“ A John Updike is a once-in-a-generation phenomenon, if that generation is lucky: so comfortable in so many genres, the same lively, generous intelligence suffusing all he did. George Saunders
“ What I'm putting forth, he said, is that the four of us make some memories, become fast friends and abandon starchy old mind-sets about monogamy. The world's gone crazy. Let's do the same.The answer i… George Saunders
“ Across the sea fat kings watched and were gleeful, that something begun so well had now gone off the rails (as down South similar kings watched), and if it went off the rails, so went the whole kit, f… George Saunders
“ I have a sense that God is unfair and preferentially punishes his weak, his dumb, his fat, his lazy. I believe he takes more pleasure in his perfect creatures, and cheers them on like a brainless dad… George Saunders
“ I hold the biscuits in front of his face and he stands up.What do I have to do? he says.Nothing, I say. They're for you.Are they poisoned? he says.No, I say.Eat one, he says.So I do.Probably the other… George Saunders
