George Saunders Quotes

Maybe I'm sort of like the players - there's still a lot of little boy in me.

Tell me about yourself - your struggles, your dreams, your telephone number.

I'm just going to embrace every experience.

I love my friends and my past, and it's made me who I am.

I have always been intrigued by these lives I have never experienced.

My life is an open pamphlet.

'Bloo' is a compilation of a few songs I've written over the past year, inspired by the necessity of finding happiness in the people I choose to surround myself with.

It all begins with forgiveness, because to heal the world, we first have to heal ourselves. And to heal the kids, we first have to heal the child within, each and every one of us.

As I look back over my life, I've been an active person - obviously I was self-absorbed for a period of time.

The fact is that this conversation is going on at every level at every age, we're all going, "God, what a jerk I've been," "How could I have married that guy?" or "How could I have done this or that?" With time, this is the gift of being older, that you get to look back and say, "It wasn't all about them."

In every aspect of my life, I tend to look for the deeper side.

I just look at my own life, which is full of error as all life is. I have done plenty of things that I am not proud of.

I look back at my career when I was younger and can connect what I was going through at the time with the characters I was playing. I see the similarities in them reflecting on my life.

Feeling good" is your way of telling yourself that your last thought was truth, that your last word was wisdom, that your last action was love. To measure how highly you have evolved, simply look to see what makes you "feel good.

I sometimes have to look back and say, "Wow, this is amazing what has happened to me. I have been able to fulfill a lot of these dreams that I had when I was very young." It's a pretty amazing feeling. But at the same time it becomes addictive!

Sometimes I have a feeling, when I look back on my life, that all I've been through has prepared me perfectly for just what I'm doing now.

Look at your heart-flower and smile. You will be able to solve your most pressing problems.

You know you're a success when you look at your kids and realize they turned out better than you.

There was always something. It's like with this one, there's always something that's mad that I look back on it and go, that's pretty amazing to say that I've done that or been there.

After a while the middle-aged person who lives in her head begins to talk to her soul, the kid.

I've learned so much from all my mistakes. I just wish I had gotten my education.

Women see through each other, but they rarely look into themselves.

If you don't look at yourself and evaluate it, you instead see how the world's reacting to it.

Unless you're very boring, I think most people who've lived long enough have something in their past which will never go away. As a writer, my interest has become in writing about much more emotional, personal topics. I'm trying to reach into subjects I have never written about before.

You have to be quite grounded, and I don't know what that is. Sometimes, that means being vulnerable.