The word 'funny' is a bit like the word 'love' - we don't have enough words to describe the many varieties. George Saunders Next Quote Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up. - George Saunders Previous Quote A John Updike is a once-in-a-generation phenomenon, if that generation is lucky: so comfortable in so many genres, the same lively, generous intelligence suffusing all he did. - George Saunders