I said I kicked a French chicken in the stomach once." "Huh?" "It said, 'Oeuf.'" "What is that?" "It's a joke. Do… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
It's so hard to express yourself.' I understand this.' I want to express myself.' The same is true for me.' I'm looking… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
ART Art is that thing having to do only with itself—the product of a successful attempt to make a work of art.… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
You do not have to utter anything you do not want to utter,” I told her, and she said, “Then I would… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
We were quiet on the car ride home. I turned on the radio and found a station playing "Hey Jude." It was… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
And here I am, instead of there. I'm sitting in this library, thousands of miles from my life, writing another letter I… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I write because I want to end my loneliness. Books make people less alone. That, before and after everything else, is what… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
We shouldn't be intimidated by someone else's idea of perfection if it will prevent us from taking steps we actively want to… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
How would you judge an artist who mutilated animals in a gallery because it was visually arresting? How riveting would the sound… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I know you look both ways before you cross the street, but I want you to look both ways a second time,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I felt suddenly shy. I was not used to shy. I was used to shame. Shyness is when you turn your head… — 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
