I would have done anything for him. Maybe that was my sickness. We made love in nothing places and turned the lights… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
You will remember when a bird crashed through the window and fell to the floor. You will remember, those of you who… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
One of the things that I love about writing novels is that it really doesn't matter what next step you take as… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Why are entire flocks of industrial birds dying at once? And what about the people eating those birds? Just the other day,… — 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
But when, at the end of my sophomore year, I became a philosophy major and started doing my first seriously pretentious thinking,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Flea-Market vendors are frozen mid-haggle. Middle-aged women are frozen in the middle of their lives. The gavels of frozen judges are frozen… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
A few days after we came home from the hospital, I sent a letter to a friend, including a photo of my… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Life was a small negative space cut out of the eternal solidity, and for the first time, it felt precious - not… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
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 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
