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 Copy Share Image
The kind of funny irony is that a lot of people talk about ethical meat eating as if it's a way to… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
When a book remembers, we remember. It reminds you that you have a body. So many of the things we may think… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
In high school I became a vegetarian more times than I can now remember, most often as an effort to claim some… — 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
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
