She said, 'Believe it or not, I used to be idealistic.' I asked her what 'idealistic' meant. 'It means you live by… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Most of the times that I think about my relationship to Judaism, I not only accuse myself of a shallowness, but I… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn't… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“but it's so painful to think, and tell me, what did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I know lots and lots and lots of vegetarians who think it's perfectly all right to kill animals for food to eat,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
As for the bracelet Mom wore to the funeral, what I did was I converted Dad’s last voice message into Morse code,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
It will never be the case that people won't eat meat. I think it could conceivably be the case one day that… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I started inventing things, and then I couldn't stop, like beavers, which I know about. People think they cut down trees so… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I often think about how my sons will come to know about September 11th. Something overheard? A newspaper image? In school? I… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Do you think I'm wonderful? she asked him one day as they leaned against the trunk of a petrified maple. No, he… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Think of the beginning of the story of the beginning of everything: Adam (without Eve and without divine guidance) names the animals.… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“The distance that wedged itself between me and my happiness wasn't the world, it wasn't the bombs and burning buildings, it was… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
We know it (meat eating) is indisputably the number one cause of global warming. So what does it mean exactly to be… — 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
