Pastoralia by George Saunders. Possibly my favorite book. Its one of the weirdest books Ive ever read. If Monty Python and Thomas Pynchon had a love child, and it was raised by Frank Zappa on a weird commune, that would be this book.
I've always liked simplicity.
I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow. When there's that moment of 'Wow, I'm not really sure I can do this,' and you push through those moments, that's when you have a breakthrough.
If you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room.
You can't have everything you want, but you can have the things that really matter to you.
It is wonderful to work in an environment with a lot of smart people. It challenges you to think and work on a different level. If you play with better players, you learn a lot: perspectives, intellectual arguments, new ways of thinking about things.
If you push through that feeling of being scared, that feeling of taking risk, really amazing things can happen.
Trail dust is thicker'n blood.
The legislature have anxiously provided for those most useful and deserving body of men, the seamen and marines of this country.
Modern life. Where are we running? Sometimes what we want is not always where we are. . . Are we alone? Is the real winter inside our hearts? We are all struggling for definition in a world that resists our increase.
The love of our own language, what is it, in fact, but the love of our country expressing itself in one particular direction?