A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life

by George Saunders

And how terrible it is not to have any opinions!

What God has going for Him that we don’t is infinite information.

Everywhere we go, people are (mostly) kind and earnest and seem to believe in approximately the same things we do: responsibility, truth, neighborliness.

It’s not always within our power to choose to be happy.