Do those things that incline you toward the big questions, and avoid the things that would reduce you and make you trivial.
– George Saunders
George Saunders! As a young man, Saunders embraced the tenets of Ayn Rand, but he has since turned to Buddhism. This spring the author of Tenth of December gave an instantly iconic graduation speech at Syracuse University where he called on students to “err in the direction of kindness.”