George Saunders Quotes

Look, we're all saddled with things that make us better or worse. This world is a crazy place, and I've chosen to make my work about that insanity.

No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.

We will have more crises and none of them will look like this because no two crises have anything in common except human nature.

Life is a game of piquet played in a bramble bush in very bad weather.

It's a very confusing era that we're in.

The Chinese say, 'It's good to live in interesting times.'

This life is messy.

What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.

Show business is like a bumpy bus ride. Sometimes you find yourself temporarily juggled out of your seat and holding onto a strap. But the main idea is to hang in there and not be shoved out the door.

History seems to be so clumsy.

The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion.

Read the news section of the newspaper and there is confusion and uncertainty, a world buffeted by large forces people neither understand nor control. But turn to the sports section and it's all different.

Nature can always be more complicated than we imagine.

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

The world is noisy and messy. You need to deal with the noise and uncertainty.

The Middle East is a very difficult stage to play upon. Without doubt, it is a good drama. And on occasion, there are situations so unimaginable, if not ludicrous, as to make them almost comic. But the cast is constantly changing, the audience is often disengaged, and it seems at times that no one is actually running the show.

The world is a dynamic mess of jiggling things.

Destiny and history are untidy.

We live in a... chaotic world.

If we had the fundamental laws of nature tomorrow, we still wouldn't understand consciousness. We wouldn't even understand turbulence.

After the first ball is bowled, it's only chaos. What you are trying to do is you're trying to manage the chaos. It's not like a script that happens.

Life's messy.

I thrive on chaos and difficult situations. I guess that's who I am.

I was raised in an environment where chaos was the norm, so I was at my best in chaos.

Chaos is my natural habitat. I write about chaotic situations and about people finding their way through the chaos, the hope that you can find your way.