There has yet to be a human to survive a span of history without at least one end of the world. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Stories about food are stories about us-our history and our values. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Food for her is not food, it is terror, dignity, gratitude, vengeance, joyfulness, humiliation, religion, history, and, of course, love. As if… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Anyway, the fascinating thing was that I read in National Geographic that there are more people alive now than have died in… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
But I knew the truth and that's why I was so sad. Every moment before this one depends on this one. Everything… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I read the first chapter of A Brief History of Time when Dad was still alive, and I got incredibly heavy boots… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“There are more people alive now than have died in all of human history. In other words, if everyone wanted to play… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
We need a better way to talk about eating animals, a way that doesn't ignore or even just shruggingly accept things like… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
September 11 had such a strong visual component, the most visually documented event in human history. Nothing's ever been seen by as… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Historians tell a story about Abraham Lincoln, that while returning to Washington from Springfield, he forced his entire party to stop to… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I read the first chapter of A Brief History of Time when Dad was still alive, and I got incredibly heavy boots… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I went to my grandmother, your great-great-grandmother, and asked her to write a letter. She was my mother's mother. Your father's mother's… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I got incerdibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Anyway. I’m not allowed to watch TV, although I am allowed to rent documentaries that are approved for me, and I can… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I read the first chapter of A Brief History of Time when Dad was still alive, and I got incredibly heavy boots… — 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
