George Saunders Quotes

I'm one extreme or the other. I'm not good at doing moderation.

There doesn't seem to be a lot of middle ground with me.

It is either easy or impossible.

I was like the good girl, bad girl, there were no grey areas for me.

In movies we tend make things black and white: you're either this, or you're that.

Get it - get it better or get it worse. No middle ground of compromise.

I have a very extreme state of mind. Things are very black or very white.

I'm kind of an all-or-nothing kind of guy.

I live in the extremes.

I have an affinity towards extremes.

I'm a person of extremes. I'm usually very polar in a lot of things that I do.

Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites. It is given to formulating its beliefs in terms of Either/Ors, between which it recognizes no intermediate possibilities.

I'm a mix of a 14-year-old high schooler and a 60-year-old guy. It can never fall into the 30s or the 40s. It has to be 100 percent 60 or 100 percent 14, no in between.

You are either the best. Or you are the worst. There is no in between.

Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure

Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes.

It's either vilification or sanctification, and both piss me off.

Nothing is black-and-white, except for winning and losing, and maybe that's why people gravitate to that so much.

In the beginning it was all black and white.

When I shoot at the range, I don't feel personally powerful but like the custodian of something powerful. I feel like a successful disciplinarian of something radically alien and potent. Analyze this sensation all you want; you still can't make it go away.

I think the truth is black-and-white.

I'm an all-or-nothing person.

That's why for Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society the colors are black and white. There are no gray issues. Life is black and it's white. There's no in-between.

When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart.

For me, there is a real line between something being the worst thing in the world and the best thing in the world.