George Saunders

"Some people are so much sunlight to the square inch. I am still bathing in the cheer he radiated."

"Every new idea has something of the pain and peril of childbirth about it; ideas are just as mortal and jus…"

"The provision of basic services to the people is not a privilege. Nor is it a charitable act. The people al…"

"It's hard for decent people to stay angry at someone who has burst into tears, which is why it is often a g…"

"The poet should be responsible to the poem."

"I began to study trigonometry. There was solace in its strange formulas and equations. I was drawn to the P…"