I would have done anything for him. Maybe that was my sickness. We made love in nothing places and turned the lights… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Do you think I'm wonderful? she asked him one day as they leaned against the trunk of a petrified maple. No, he… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I started inventing things, and then I couldn't stop, like beavers, which I know about. People think they cut down trees so… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I often think about how my sons will come to know about September 11th. Something overheard? A newspaper image? In school? I… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Most of the times that I think about my relationship to Judaism, I not only accuse myself of a shallowness, but I… — 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… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
She said, 'Believe it or not, I used to be idealistic.' I asked her what 'idealistic' meant. 'It means you live by… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
This isn't animal experimentation, where you an imagine some proportionate good at the other end of the suffering. This is what we… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I hope you never think about anything as much as I think about you. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The question, I've come to think, is not what inspires one to change, but what inspires one to remain changed. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I think it's a greater risk not to write about 9\11. If you're in my position - a New Yorker who felt… — 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
The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn't… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I wouldn't want a boy to think I was pretty unless he was the kind of boy who thought I was pretty. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
We laughed and laughed, together and separately, out loud and silently, we were determined to ignore whatever needed to be ignored, to… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The word vegetarian, I think, does a disservice because there are a lot of people who care but maybe don't care, or… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
There's nothing good about being certain about things. And I don't think there's any real talent in using language in a manipulative… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I want to talk about God in a literary way. But I think I would have a very hard time praying to… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
It will never be the case that people won't eat meat. I think it could conceivably be the case one day that… — 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
But when, at the end of my sophomore year, I became a philosophy major and started doing my first seriously pretentious thinking,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I think it's very pretty. Can it be pretty if no one thinks it's pretty? I think it's pretty. If you're the… — 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
