George Saunders

You know, for a person to write a book that's powerful, they have to take everything that they have.

And even the stuff that they've habitually labeled as negative,

can be turned.

So anger, well, really, in some situations, anger is just an appropriate reaction to injustice or to disalignment and misalignment.

But for me, writing, that's what you're doing in every second.

You're taking a sentence that's a little messed up and you're putting it on the table and going, oh, okay, let's make that more specific.

Let's just turn it a little bit.

And suddenly it pops into something that's more truthful.

I think it's the way they are.

The way?

I don't know.

I don't know enough about it.

It's the way things are.

But you can be out of alignment with the way things are.

Of course.

Yeah, that's sin, as we have said.

Yes.

Truth just means, from my point of view, what's happening right now.

But also with a dose of skepticism about the way my mind answered that question.

I read a beautiful quote by Trungpa Rinpoche.