Jonathan Safran Foer

“To try to live.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“Mencils?” “Pencils for men.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“Canary light of oil lamps”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

What does it remember like?

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Nothing is beautiful and true.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Why I'm Not Where You Are

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Succotash my Balzac, dipshiitake.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Only humans can cry tears.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Books are slow, books are quiet. The Internet is fast and loud.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“What we forget about animals we begin to forget about ourselves.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“(270,000 more people become hungry each day).”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I think after you live it's like before you lived.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“I hated the gnawing longing that accompanied having everything.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Nine out of ten significant people have to do with money or war!

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I believed him. I was not stupid. I was his wife.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“Writing is like pulling teeth out of your penis.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

It is my great hope that our paths, however long and winding, will cross again.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can't people say what they mean at the…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“What if it was man and not God that did all of this?" "I do not believe in man, either.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“Every time you make a decision about food, Paul pleaded, quoting Berry, “you are farming by proxy.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“there were so many different ways to die, and I just need to know which was his.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

There has yet to be a human to survive a span of history without at least one end of the world.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Why didn't he say goodbye? I gave myself a bruise. Why didn't he say 'I love you'?

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I have made my own choice, which is vegetarianism, but it's not the choice I'm imposing on anybody else.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“The Uprighters called them names and promised them an eternity of agony in the next world for their eagerness to be comfortable…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Every parent who loses a child finds a way to laugh again. The timbre begins to fade. The edge dulls. The hurt…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“One day I wandered away from her and hid. I liked the way it felt to have someone look for me, to…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“Love itself became the object of her love. She loved herself in love, she loved loving love, as love loves loving, and…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I didn't intend to write about totems or people searching. I tried not to constrain myself, and this is what I ended…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I dreamt four nights ago of clock hands descending from the universe like rain, of the moon as a green eye, of…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

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…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

In high school I became a vegetarian more times than I can now remember, most often as an effort to claim some…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“Those who defend pig factory farms argue that the farrowing crate is necessary because sows can sometimes accidentally crush their piglets. In…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

She spent an afternoon staring at their front door. Waiting for someone? Yankel asked. What color is this? He stood very close…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“The twins hid their bodies under their father’s tallis, like ghosts. The horse at the bottom of the river, shrouded by the…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“In America, where the USDA’s interpretation of the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act exempts chicken slaughter, the voltage is kept low —…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“Another reason it would be a good invention is that there are so many times when you know you're feeling a lot…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“Don't you find that strange? I can't believe I never found it strange before. It's like your name, how you don't notice…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“I like to see people reunited, maybe that's a silly thing, but what can I say, I like to see people run…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“And historians have now discovered an even earlier Thanksgiving than the 1621 Plymouth celebration that English-American historians made famous. Half a century…

— Jonathan Safran Foer