I was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“My celebrity memoir title: It Was the Worst of Times, It Was the Worst of Times.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“There are times when one needs to disappear while in the living room, and sometimes one simply wants to disappear.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I had no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Reality Hunger is more than thought-provoking; it's one of the most beautiful books I've read in a long time. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“(American farmers are four times more likely to commit suicide than the general population.)” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live life.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
There are still many different ways to get stuck, existentially stuck. Feeling like, "This is worthless. I'm wasting my time, and I… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I’m here, Dr. Fein, because it upsets my mom that I’m having an impossible time with my life.” “Should it upset her?”… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I can be funny, because I have time to meditate about how to be funny, and I can repair my mistakes when… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I'm less worried about accomplishment - as younger people always can't help but be - and more concerned with spending my time… — 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
We often use technology to save time, but increasingly, it either takes the saved time along with it, or makes the saved… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“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
Life was a small negative space cut out of the eternal solidity, and for the first time, it felt precious - not… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose, keep in touch (or don't), care about birthdays, waste and lose time,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Dad?' 'Yeah?' 'Could you tell me a story?' 'Sure.' 'A good one.' 'As opposed to all the boring ones I tell.' 'Right.'… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I went to my grandmother... and asked her to write a letter. I hardly knew her. I didn't have any interest in… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
In the past seven years of love-making he had heard the words "I love you" so many times: from the mouths of… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
We slept in the same bed. There was never a right time to say it. It was always unnecessary. The books in… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
From the movie "Everything is Illuminated" based on a book by Jonathan Safran Foer: I have reflected many times upon our rigid… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I wonder if she knows, I wonder in my Nothingest moments if she's testing me, if she types nonsense all day… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“It feels like a moment I've lived a thousand times before, as if everything is familiar, right up to the moment of… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“What about a teakettle? What if the spout opened and closed when the steam came out, so it would become a mouth,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I went to my grandmother, your great-great-grandmother, and asked her to write a letter. She was my mother's mother. Your father's mother's… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“The next morning I told Mom I couldn't go to school again. She asked what was wrong. I told her, “The same… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“How many times, in those first weeks, did he enter the room and stand by the door, unable to speak? How many… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“After a time, I had only a handful of words left... Does it break my heart, of course, every moment of every… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I got incerdibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“AND IF WE ARE TO STRIVE FOR A BETTER FUTURE, MUSTN'T WE BE FAMILIAR AND RECONCILED WITH OUR PAST?” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time there was a person whose life was so good there was no story to tell about it.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Part of living your life is an awareness of the opportunities that can be missed and an awareness that time moves in… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
For a long time, I thought I would like to be a doctor. Such a good profession. So explicitly good. Never a… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“No father knows that he is carrying his son up the stairs for the final time” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“omnivores contribute seven times the volume of greenhouse gases that vegans do.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Marriage is like a chess match is initiated and the board expands over time until it takes up all of a life. — 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
