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, and even correct arguments that war is sometimes necessary someone says: war is large-scale murder, us at our worst, the stupidest guy doing the cruelest thing to the weakest being.
George SaundersWhen I think about what fiction does morally, I'm happier thinking of a person full of multiplicities - sort of fragmented.
George SaundersDeveloping our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.
George SaundersSuccess is like a mountain that keeps growing ahead of you as you hike it... Err in the direction of kindness.
George Saunders