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
“I had no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“There are times when one needs to disappear while in the living room, and sometimes one simply wants to disappear.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“(American farmers are four times more likely to commit suicide than the general population.)” — 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.” — 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
“AND IF WE ARE TO STRIVE FOR A BETTER FUTURE, MUSTN'T WE BE FAMILIAR AND RECONCILED WITH OUR PAST?” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time there was a person whose life was so good there was no story to tell about it.” — 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
I'm less worried about accomplishment - as younger people always can't help but be - and more concerned with spending my time… — 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
Life was a small negative space cut out of the eternal solidity, and for the first time, it felt precious - not… — 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
In the water I saw my father's face, and that face saw the face of its father, and so on, and so… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
And also, there are so many times when you need to make a quick escape, but humans don't have their own wings,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Martin Luther King Jr. wrote passionately about the time when “one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor… — 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
We slept in the same bed. There was never a right time to say it. It was always unnecessary. The books in… — 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
From the movie "Everything is Illuminated" based on a book by Jonathan Safran Foer: I have reflected many times upon our rigid… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“It feels like a moment I've lived a thousand times before, as if everything is familiar, right up to the moment of… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“What about a teakettle? What if the spout opened and closed when the steam came out, so it would become a mouth,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“The next morning I told Mom I couldn't go to school again. She asked what was wrong. I told her, “The same… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“How many times, in those first weeks, did he enter the room and stand by the door, unable to speak? How many… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“After a time, I had only a handful of words left... Does it break my heart, of course, every moment of every… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I got incerdibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it… — 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
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
For a long time, I thought I would like to be a doctor. Such a good profession. So explicitly good. Never a… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“omnivores contribute seven times the volume of greenhouse gases that vegans do.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Marriage is like a chess match is initiated and the board expands over time until it takes up all of a life. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“She had been in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love, but rather doing… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I am not a bad person. I am a good person who has lived in a bad time." Alex's grandfather..Everything is Illuminated — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
What kind of world would we create if three times a day we activated our compassion and reason as we sat down… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I see bad stuff on the street all the time that I don't do anything about. I do bad stuff myself all… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
There are only so many times that you can utter ‘It does not hurt’ before it begins to hurt even more than… — 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
