People shouldn't be allowed to get married until it's too late to have kids. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know? — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Nine out of ten significant people have to do with money or war! — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
People around the world were moving from one place to another. No one was staying. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Everybody knows the competing identities of people who have kids. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I'm not funny. People assume that because my books are funny, I'll be funny in real life. It's the inevitable disappointment of… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“well! So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
People don't care enough. They don't get worked up enough. They don't get angry enough. They don't get passionate enough. I'd rather… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
It seems entirely possible to me that horrible things can be going on without us becoming horrible people. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can't people say what they mean at the… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Why do I write? It's not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I kept thinking how they were all names of dead people, and how names are basically the only thing dead people keep. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I am sure people tell you this constantly but if you looked up 'incredibly beautiful' in the dictionary there would be a… — 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
Eating a piece of meat, at its most efficient, we could say is like throwing away six times that amount of food… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Isn't it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we're doing what we're doing… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
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
None of the ways people were talking about September 11 felt right to me. I don't buy into the way George W.… — 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
I didn't intend to write about totems or people searching. I tried not to constrain myself, and this is what I ended… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Just to be a functioning adult in the world, we develop all of these layers of protection. When we see homeless people,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Ninety-eight percent of all the soy that's raised goes to livestock. So people make fun of vegetarians for being tofu eaters, but… — 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
This is the sixty-nine," I told him, presenting the magazine in front of him. I put my fingers -- two of them… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
My impression is that staying together as a couple does not correspond to the challenges themselves, but whether the very idea of… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
From space, astronauts can see people making love as a tiny speck of light. Not light, exactly, but a glow that could… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Life is precious, so I ought to spend my days, you know, making sandwiches for homeless people and tending to the elderly… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Almost always when I told someone I was writing a book about "eating animals", they assumed, even without knowing anything about my… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
You can see the most beautiful things from the observation deck of the Empire State Building. I read somewhere that people on… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
People who become used to saying little become used to feeling little. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Hunting will never feed lots of people; it will always be a hobby. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Family are the people who must make you feel ashamed when you are deserving of shame. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Because sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It's already happening. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
People who want to find a place of rest, want to find an integrated personality, sense of self, want fewer fractures in… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
It made me start to wonder if there were other people so lonely so close. I thought about “Eleanor Rigby.” It’s true,… — 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