Everything is the way it is because everything was the way it was — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I ran rather than walked, anxious to lose my way. All I wanted was to be unsure. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Everything is the way it is because everything was the way it was. Sometimes I feel ensnared in this, as if no… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
There are a lot of things that we crave, there are a lot of things that would make us perhaps more fulfilled… — 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 zipped myself all the way into the sleeping bag of myself, not because I was hurt, and not because I had… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Murdering someone would surely prove that you are capable of killing, but it wouldn't be the most reasonable way to understand why… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Every factory-farmed animal is, as a practice, treated in ways that would be illegal if it were a dog or a cat. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
...accepting the compromise of the way we have been, the way we are, and the way we will likely be...may we live… — 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
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
What the world does not need is a Haggadah that pats itself on the back. It needs a Haggadah that gets out… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of sculptures. There's the kind that subtracts: Michelangelo starts with a block of marble and chips away. And… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The word vegetarian, I think, does a disservice because there are a lot of people who care but maybe don't care, or… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
There is an overabundance of rational reasons to say no to factory-farmed meat: It is the No. 1 cause of global warming,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
None of the ways people were talking about September 11 felt right to me. I don't buy into the way George W.… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I used to think that humor was the only way to appreciate how wonderful and terrible the world is, to celebrate how… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Every parent who loses a child finds a way to laugh again. The timbre begins to fade. The edge dulls. The hurt… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she slept a good night's sleep, and… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
However much we obfuscate or ignore it, we know that the factory farm is inhumane in the deepest sense of the word.… — 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
Just how destructive does a culinary preference have to be before we decide to eat something else? If contributing to the suffering… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
And the joys I've felt have not always been joyous. I could have lived differently. When I was your age, my grandfather… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Cruelty...prefers abstraction. Some have tried to resolved this gap by hunting or butchering an animal themselves, as if those experiences might somehow… — 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
I asked her, "Are you an optimist or a pessimist?" She looked at her watch and said, "I'm optimistic." "Then I have… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
My dream went all the way back to the beginning. The rain rose into the clouds, and the animals descended the ramp. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Profound, bottomless self-doubt - it has no value - what's the point? In a way, it takes up as much time as… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The kind of funny irony is that a lot of people talk about ethical meat eating as if it's a way to… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I know lots and lots and lots of vegetarians who think it's perfectly all right to kill animals for food to eat,… — 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
Humans are the only animal that blushes, laughs, has religion, wages war, and kisses with lips. So in a way, the more… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Can’t you even tell me if I’m on the right track?" Buckminster purred, and Dad shrugged his shoulders again. "But if you… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
We need a better way to talk about eating animals, a way that doesn't ignore, or even just shruggingly accept things like… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Ironically, the utterly unselective omnivore -- "I'm easy; I'll eat anything" -- can appear more socially sensitive than the individual who tries… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I often think about how my sons will come to know about September 11th. Something overheard? A newspaper image? In school? I… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Thanksgiving is the holiday that encompasses all others. All of them, from Martin Luther King Day to Arbor Day to Christmas to… — 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
