George Saunders Quotes

I compare it to being in a car accident. There's so much adrenaline rushing through you that you remember being in the accident but you don't remember any of the details.

I suddenly felt the plane go down. I thought we were going to die. I was really scared. I was sitting with my head in my hands.

Nothing like fear to wash your mind clean.

When they tell you that you have cancer, you panic.

But when I came back into the city for the first time last November, I thought every truck, every building was going to blow up. It has truly changed me something fierce.

Oh my God. My God. It’s all over.

Anne, are you killed?' shrieked Diana, throwing herself on her knees beside her friend. 'Oh, Anne, dear Anne, speak just one word to me and tell me if you're killed.

I can't talk about Hollywood. It was a horror to me when I was there and it's a horror to look back on. I can't imagine how I did it. When I got away from it I couldn't even refer to the place by name. ''Out there,'' I called it.

My God. What's happened?

It's never too early to panic.

What happens if you get scared half to death twice?

If a car came through a window anywhere near me, I'd be freaking out for three days!

When the headache persisted, I checked myself into an emergency room. When the doctor used the term 'brain tumour', I feared the worst. My whole world shrank around me.

I just don't like getting scared, like when people hide and jump out of places. That totally freaks me out. I'm not a fan of it.

If I panic, everyone else panics.

With The Omen, I really felt I wasn't in control. It was panic.

The best-case scenario is that the glass shatters in my face! How do you think that makes me feel?

When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.

I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood.

My phobias worsen as I get older. I'm scared of flying, driving. I'm terrified of sharks. I'm a germaphobe. But I try to face my fears; I do. Well, most of them.

My wife had taken off on a plane. Two airplanes had crashed into the World Trade Center. I, of course, like any other person, felt potentially devastated, panicky a little bit.

My heart pounds sickeningly and I turn pale... I often feel as if I were dead... I seem to be losing my mind.

I have crazy claustrophobic dreams, weird elevator dreams where the elevator closes in and all of a sudden I am lying down - oh my God, it's a casket. Just freaky stuff like that.

When you are desperate, it's usually because of fear.

I was screaming constantly, on the set, in my room... everywhere.