Only now do I understand the war against boredom, the lost cause of empty hours, of empty days and nights. — 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 felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“In the end, everyone looses everyone. There was no invention to get around that, and so I felt, that night, like the… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Every night before putting her to sleep, Yankel counts her ribs, as if one might have disappeared in the course of the… — 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
In bed that night I invented a special drain that would be underneath every pillow in New York, and would connect to… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
We were trying to make our lives easier, trying, with all our rules, to make life effortless. But a friction began to… — 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
We slept in the same bed. There was never a right time to say it. It was always unnecessary. The books in… — 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
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
Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she slept a good night's sleep, and… — 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
