People who become used to saying little become used to feeling little. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
What's so horrible about being dead forever, and not feeling anything, and not even dreaming? What's so great about feeling and dreaming? — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I woke up once in the middle of the night, and Buckminster's paws were on my eyelids. He must have been feeling… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I often think about how my sons will come to know about September 11th. Something overheard? A newspaper image? In school? I… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
It's so beautiful at this hour. The sun is low, the shadows are long, the air is cold and clean. You won't… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
He Wrote, Are you OK? I told him, My eyes are crummy. He wrote, But are you OK? I told him, That's… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
There are only so many times that you can utter ‘It does not hurt’ before it begins to hurt even more than… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
My greatest fear is feeling like a professional novelist. Somebody who creates characters, who sits down and has pieces of paper taped… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
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 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
Dogs are wonderful, and in many ways unique. But they are remarkably unremarkable in their intellectual and experiential capacities. Pigs are every… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone. I… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
There's a really wonderful book called "Man Is Not Alone" by Abraham Joshua Heschel, which makes the case that everybody is religious.… — 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
