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
And nothing inspires as much shame as being a parent. Children confront us with our paradoxes and hypocrisies, and we are exposed.… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Or perhaps a widow found him and took him in: brought him an easy chair, changed his sweater every morning, shaved his… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
...he was leaving me. I wondered if I should stop him. If I should wrestle him to the ground and force him… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
In the water I saw my father's face, and that face saw the face of its father, and so on, and so… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Grandfather kicked the stop pedal, and my face gave a high-five to the front window. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“The appearance was misleading- human dreams; rubbish heaps abundant yet ephemeral sudden and splendid, only to wilt and perish” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“the entirety of human society and moral progress represents an explicit transcendence of what’s “natural.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
