Jonathan Safran Foer

Life is scarier than death.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Songs are as sad as the listener.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“For Nicole, my idea of beauty”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

To feel alone is to be alone.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“I am very simple to enchant.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“It takes life to live life”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Sadness of love without release.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

What if I never stop inventing?

— Jonathan Safran Foer

...sometimes you have to put your fears in order...

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“You can't love anything more than something you miss.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“The room was filled with conversations we weren't having.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“It hurts me when you do not want to hurt me.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I am willing to be annoying if that's what was necessary.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“He said, Let there be light. And there was darkness.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Grandfather informs me that is not possible.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“The apartment had never been darker. I turned on the lamp. It became bright around us. The apartment became darker.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I'm deeply curious about Jewish things. I've toyed around with the idea of going to rabbinical school.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“Thinking would keep me alive. But now I am alive and thinking is killing me”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I put my hand on the doorknob because I thought maybe her hand was on the doorknob on the other side.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“Mr. Black started singing a song in some weird language, which I guess was Philippinish.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“Razmišljam o svemu što sam učinila.I o svemu što nisam učinila.Pogreške su za mene mrtve.Ali ne mogu povući stvari koje nikada nisam…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I think there's going to be something that happens now, where books move in two directions, one toward digitized formats and one…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Just to be a functioning adult in the world, we develop all of these layers of protection. When we see homeless people,…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“she saw through the shell of me into the center of me … She went home with her father, the center of…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Then I have some bad news for you, because humans are going to destroy each other as soon as it becomes easy…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“Deep down, the young are lonelier than the old.' I read that in a book somewhere and it's stuck in my head.…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“I said, I want to tell you something She said, you can tell me tomorrow. I had never told her how much…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

There's never been a culture that wasn't obsessed with food. The sort of sad thing is that our obsession is no longer…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“If there's no love in the world, we will make a new world and we will give it heavy walls, and we…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Farmers since the beginning of time have been feeding the world very successfully without systematically abusing animals or destroying the environment. But…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Cher Marcel, Allô. I am Oskar's mom. I have thought about it a ton, and I have decided that it isn't obvious…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“I know a lot about birds and bees, but I don't know very much about the birds and the bees. Everything I…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

And so it was when anyone tried to speak: their minds would become tangled in remembrance. Words became floods of thought with…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“Young friends, whose string-and-tin-can phone extended from island to island, had to pay out more and more string, as if letting kites…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

From space, astronauts can see people making love as a tiny speck of light. Not light, exactly, but a glow that could…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Needless to say, jamming deformed, drugged, overstressed birds together in a filthy, waste-coated room is not very healthy. Beyond deformities, eye damage,…

— Jonathan Safran Foer