I do find the values in A Christmas Carol significant. It is important not to be mean and stingy and not to give up love for money.
George SaundersFor me, things were either very sullied or very pure, very controlled or very under-controlled.
George SaundersIn my case, when I am trying to be "kind" I often default in a sort of toothless loving-all stance that is, actually, not kind, because it is not truthful.
George SaundersI started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throughout the course of my life I've done a lot of strange jobs, and the effect has been to make me think a little more skeptically about our capitalist society.
George Saunders