Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.

Saunders urges a stance of radical intellectual humility: confusion is not a failure but a productive condition that keeps perception flexible and curiosity alive. “Anything is possible” frames uncertainty as a gateway to discovery, empathy, and creative risk—especially in art and moral life, where premature certainty can harden into cliché or cruelty. The escalating imperative to “stay open… until the day you die” turns openness into a lifelong discipline, even a kind of secular prayer (“amen”), suggesting that growth requires repeated surrender of ego and fixed narratives. The quote valorizes discomfort as the price of genuine learning and humane attention.