The paper, the stapler, the staples, the tape. It makes me sick. Physical things. Forty years of loving someone becomes staples and… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the year, covertly… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Also, I designed a pretty fascinating bracelet, where you put a rubber band around your favorite book of poems for a year,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I realized that your mother couldn't see the emptiness, she couldn't see anything...All of the words I'd written to her over all… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Oskar Schell: If the sun were to explode, you wouldn't even know about it for 8 minutes because thats how long it… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I thought about all of the things that everyone ever says to each other, and how everyone is going to die, whether… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The UN special envoy on food called it a 'crime against humanity' to funnel 100 million tons of grain and corn to… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
But when, at the end of my sophomore year, I became a philosophy major and started doing my first seriously pretentious thinking,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
In the past seven years of love-making he had heard the words "I love you" so many times: from the mouths of… — 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
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
I asked my schoolmate Mary to write a letter to me. She was funny and full of life. She liked to run… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
From space, astronauts can see people making love as a tiny speck of light. Not light, exactly, but a glow that could… — 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
