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
“I went to my grandmother, your great-great-grandmother, and asked her to write a letter. She was my mother's mother. Your father's mother's… — 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
“But the future lay open, a thousand kaleidoscopic possibilities with a small quick heartbeat, delicate and impatient” — 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
“I went to my grandmother... and asked her to write a letter. I hardly knew her. I didn't have any interest in… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Dad?' 'Yeah?' 'Could you tell me a story?' 'Sure.' 'A good one.' 'As opposed to all the boring ones I tell.' 'Right.'… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
You need to have a reader's sympathy in order to accomplish anything. It's like at a reading, I find it's better to… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I said, I want to tell you something She said, you can tell me tomorrow. I had never told her how much… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time, USDA inspectors had to condemn any bird with such fecal contamination. But about thirty years ago, the poultry… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The images of his infinite pasts and infinite futures washed over him as he waited, paralyzed, in the present. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I can be funny, because I have time to meditate about how to be funny, and I can repair my mistakes when… — 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
“I'm not mad at you," she said. "Not even a little?" "No." "Do you still love me?" It didn't seem like the… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I read the first chapter of A Brief History of Time when Dad was still alive, and I got incredibly heavy boots… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Another reason it would be a good invention is that there are so many times when you know you're feeling a lot… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Abraham responds "Here I am" when God asks him to sacrifice his son, and he answers "Here I am" when his son… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Part of living your life is an awareness of the opportunities that can be missed and an awareness that time moves in… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Farmers since the beginning of time have been feeding the world very successfully without systematically abusing animals or destroying the environment. But… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I shook my tambourine the whole time, because it helped me remember that even though I was going through different neighborhoods, I… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I wonder if she knows, I wonder in my Nothingest moments if she's testing me, if she types nonsense all day… — 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
