“I wanted to build walls around him, I wanted to separate inside from outside, I wanted to give him an infinitely long… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“...maybe great books were coiled within him like springs, books that could have separated inside from outside.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
When a book remembers, we remember. It reminds you that you have a body. So many of the things we may think… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I started carrying blank books like this one around, which I would fill with all the things I couldn't say... — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Art can be very political but that can't be the purpose of art, it can't be the driving force. It isn't with… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The books could be completely worthless, and things we don't even read now could be considered the most important books. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“He was like a book that you could feel good holding, that you could talk about without ever having read, that could… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time... ...why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
You need to have a reader's sympathy in order to accomplish anything. It's like at a reading, I find it's better to… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Writing's funny, it's like walking down a hall in the dark looking for the light switch, and suddenly you find it, flip… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Almost always when I told someone I was writing a book about "eating animals", they assumed, even without knowing anything about my… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I thought about packing my bags, I thought about jumping out a window, I sat on the bed and thought, I thought… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live, Oskar. Because if I were able to live my life… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“(..) she cried and cried and cried, there weren't any napkins nearby so I ripped the page from the book - "I… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
This brings me back to the image of Kafka standing before a fish in the Berlin aquarium, a fish on which his gaze fell… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
He removed several pages of death certificates, which were picked up by another breeze and sent into the trees. Some would fall with the… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
I would have done anything for him. Maybe that was my sickness. We made love in nothing places and turned the lights off. It… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
“One day I wandered away from her and hid. I liked the way it felt to have someone look for me, to hear my… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
“It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn't think about it at… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
“The appearance was misleading- human dreams; rubbish heaps abundant yet ephemeral sudden and splendid, only to wilt and perish” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
“the entirety of human society and moral progress represents an explicit transcendence of what’s “natural.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
“Food is not so much a symbol of freedom as the first requirement of freedom. We eat foods that are native to America on… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
“Rationally, factory farming is so obviously wrong, in so many ways. In all of my reading and conversations, I’ve yet to find a credible… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
Just because you're an atheist, that doesn't mean you wouldn't love for things to have reasons for why they are. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
Do you think I'm wonderful? she asked him one day as they leaned against the trunk of a petrified maple. No, he said. Why?… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
My insides don't match up with my outsides. -Do anyone's inside and outsides match up? -I don't know. I'm only me. -Maybe that's what… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
