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
It's not worth getting too excited about thinking about the larger picture. The larger picture doesn't come into focus for an awfully… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Its so painful to think, and tell me what did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Mom told me, “It probably gets pretty lonely to be Grandma, don’t you think?” I told her, “It probably gets pretty lonely… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
It is unrealistic to think you can have an inflexible identity that never has to give or take or make compromises. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
As I've grown older, I've grown more convinced there's nothing that shouldn't be talked about. If we think we're protecting each other,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I am always sad, I think. Perhaps this signifies that I am not sad at all, because sadness is something lower than… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
As for the bracelet Mom wore to the funeral, what I did was I converted Dad’s last voice message into Morse code,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
In the past seven years of love-making he had heard the words "I love you" so many times: from the mouths of… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
We know it (meat eating) is indisputably the number one cause of global warming. So what does it mean exactly to be… — 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