Art can be very political but that can't be the purpose of art, it can't be the driving force. It isn't with… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The purpose of the Seder to my mind is to inspire conversations with your family about the human drama and hopefully transmit… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Food serves two parallel purposes: it nourishes and it helps you remember. Eating and storytelling are inseparable-the saltwater is also tears; the… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Or maybe what he fears is just the opposite: that nobody is looking; that his death, like his life, is without purpose;… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
... the man took my passport and asked me the purpose of my visit, I wrote in my daybook, 'To mourn,' and… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Darling, You asked me to write you a letter, so I am writing you a letter. I do not know why I… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
We tried so hard. We were always trying to help each other. But not because we were helpless. He needed to get… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose, keep in touch (or don't), care about birthdays, waste and lose time,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
ART Art is that thing having to do only with itself—the product of a successful attempt to make a work of art.… — 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
