It seems entirely possible to me that horrible things can be going on without us becoming horrible people. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
We say no to lots of things that would please us. I would like to punch people every now and then, but… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Everybody knows the competing identities of people who have kids. — 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
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
Mom said, "His spirit is there," and that made me really angry. I told her, "Dad didn't have a spirit! He had… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Few people sufficiently appreciate the colossal task of feeding a world of billions of omnivores who demand meat with their potatoes. — 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
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
I watched the sheets breathe when she breathed, like how Dad used to say that trees inhale when people exhale, because I… — 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
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
What? she said once to herself, and then once aloud, What? She felt a total displacement, like a spinning globe brought to… — 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
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
People around the world were moving from one place to another. No one was staying. — 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
If people thought about food more like how we think about the environment, a lot of people would be eating differently and… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Think of the beginning of the story of the beginning of everything: Adam (without Eve and without divine guidance) names the animals.… — 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
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
“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
Because it was starting to get dark, and because the streets were crowded, I bumped into a googolplex people. Who were they?… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I'm less worried about accomplishment - as younger people always can't help but be - and more concerned with spending my time… — 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
