Jonathan Safran Foer

I've never particularly liked bankers.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Every moment before this one depends on this one.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“Googol?'' ''That's a one with one hundred zeroes after it.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I wanted so much to have a life. Even just once, even for a second.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“She didn't love life. There was no convincing reason to live”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“I wanted to shout myself into his ear.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“We just stood there, facing each other, but nine floors apart.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“An ocean could not explain the distance we have traveled.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

What were we spending so much time doing if not getting to know each other?

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are always smarter than their parents.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“The only thing worse than being sad is for others to know that you are sad.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

While it is always possible to wake a person who's sleeping, no amount of noise will wake a person who is pretending…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

People shouldn't be allowed to get married until it's too late to have kids.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

When you look up 'hilarious' in the dictionary, there's a picture of you.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

It seems entirely possible to me that horrible things can be going on without us becoming horrible people.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“He was responsible. He was good. It's easy to be emotional. You can always make a scene. Highs and lows make you…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

It was the first time I had ever made love. I wondered if he knew that. It felt like crying. I wondered,…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

People always ask what a book is about, as if it has to be about something. I don't want to write books…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I first became a vegetarian when I was nine, in response to an argument made by a radical babysitter. My great change…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“The average distance our meat travels hovers around fifteen hundred miles. That’s like me driving from Brooklyn to the Texas Panhandle for…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“It’s true, I am afraid of dying. I am afraid of the world moving forward without me, of my absence going unnoticed,…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

She repeats things until they are true, or until she can't tell whether they are true or not. She has become an…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“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

“I pull the skull off my head. Even though it's made of papier-mache it's really hard. I smash it against Jimmy Snyder's…

— 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

Suddenly Yankel was overcome with a fear of dying, stronger than he felt when his parents passed of natural causes, stronger than…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“Brod's life was a slow realization that the world was not for her, and that for whatever reason, she would never be…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“I once went to report on a village in Russia, a community of artists who were forced to flee the cities! I'd…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

It's so hard to express yourself.' I understand this.' I want to express myself.' The same is true for me.' I'm looking…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“I have witnessed Grandfather cry, and I implore myself to say that I desire to never witness him cry again. If this…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

It is better to lose than never to have had.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

She is deranged, but so so playful.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

She saw through the shell of me into the center of me

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Was his death an essential stage in the continuation of his life?

— Jonathan Safran Foer

The end of suffering does not justify the suffering

— Jonathan Safran Foer

People hurt each other. That's what people do.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“I put my hands into the pockets of all his jackets”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?

— Jonathan Safran Foer