...there are only some many times you can utter "It does not hurt" before it begins to hurt even more than the… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time there was a man whose life was so good there's no story to tell about it.” — 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
What were we spending so much time doing if not getting to know each other? — 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 was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“My celebrity memoir title: It Was the Worst of Times, It Was the Worst of Times.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly… — 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
That's the nice thing about being a vegetarian. You don't have to be neurotic. Selective omnivores have to be neurotic. Personally, I… — 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
“I’m here, Dr. Fein, because it upsets my mom that I’m having an impossible time with my life.” “Should it upset her?”… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
There are still many different ways to get stuck, existentially stuck. Feeling like, "This is worthless. I'm wasting my time, and I… — 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
My wife and I have chosen to bring up our children as vegetarians. In another time or place, we might have made… — 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… — 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
“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
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
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 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
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
“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
“Touch had always saved them in the past. No matter the anger or hurt, no matter the depth of the aloneness, a… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“They say that people who live next to waterfalls don't hear the water. It was terrible at first. We couldn't stand to… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“What about little microphones? What if everyone swallowed them, and they played the sounds of our hearts through little speakers, which could… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“What about little microphones? What if everyone swallowed them, and they played the sounds of our hearts through little speakers, which could… — 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
“A lot of the time I'd get that feeling like I was in the middle of a huge black ocean, or in… — 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
“Once upon a time the dominant ethic toward domestic animals, rooted in the demands of husbandry and responding to the fundamental problem… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Reality Hunger is more than thought-provoking; it's one of the most beautiful books I've read in a long 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
