Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want. — 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
Why do I write? It's not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“ We all choose things, and we also all choose against things. I want to be the kind of person who chooses… — 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
I wouldn't want a boy to think I was pretty unless he was the kind of boy who thought I was pretty. — 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
Which, then, brings us closer to what we want to communicate: saying what we intend, or trying to say the opposite? — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I want to talk about God in a literary way. But I think I would have a very hard time praying to… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
How could this world be so unlike the world that I believed I was living in? I can't describe it. Do I… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I observe, I write, I try not to remember the life that I didn't want to loose but lost and have to… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
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
I think it's a greater risk not to write about 9\11. If you're in my position - a New Yorker who felt… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
We eat as sons and daughters, as families, as communities, as generations, as nations, and increasingly as a globe. We can't stop… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I could tell that Mom was dreaming, but I didn't want to know what she was dreaming about, because I had enough… — 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
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
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 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
We tried so hard. We were always trying to help each other. But not because we were helpless. He needed to get… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Cher Marcel, Allô. I am Oskar's mom. I have thought about it a ton, and I have decided that it isn't obvious… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
When I heard your organization was recording testimonies, I knew I had to come. She died in my arms, saying 'I don't… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
And nothing inspires as much shame as being a parent. Children confront us with our paradoxes and hypocrisies, and we are exposed.… — 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
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 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
People always ask what a book is about, as if it has to be about something. I don't want to write books… — 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
I think it's very pretty. Can it be pretty if no one thinks it's pretty? I think it's pretty. If you're the… — 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
Raising your kids vegetarian is a great way to encourage them to do the opposite of what you want! But the goal… — 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
She wants to know if I love her, that's all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
We need enormous pockets, pockets big enough for our families and our friends, and even the people who aren't on our lists,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I have so much to say to you. I want to begin at the beginning, because that is what you deserve. I… — 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
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
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
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
“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
“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
“The appearance was misleading- human dreams; rubbish heaps abundant yet ephemeral sudden and splendid, only to wilt and perish” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
“the entirety of human society and moral progress represents an explicit transcendence of what’s “natural.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
“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
“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
Just because you're an atheist, that doesn't mean you wouldn't love for things to have reasons for why they are. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
Do you think I'm wonderful? she asked him one day as they leaned against the trunk of a petrified maple. No, he said. Why?… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
My insides don't match up with my outsides. -Do anyone's inside and outsides match up? -I don't know. I'm only me. -Maybe that's what… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
