Jonathan Safran Foer

“The moment before he started was my favorite moment.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“I have tutored Little Igor to be a man of this world. For example, I exhibited him a smutty magazine three days…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“Alex?” I told him yes. “You’re my translator, right?” I asked him to be slow, because I could not understand him. In…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Everything is the way it is because everything was the way it was

— Jonathan Safran Foer

There is nothing wrong with compromising. Even if you compromise almost everything.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

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

“my brain started misbehaving, and”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“And historians have now discovered an even earlier Thanksgiving than the 1621 Plymouth celebration that English-American historians made famous. Half a century…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Which, then, brings us closer to what we want to communicate: saying what we intend, or trying to say the opposite?

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I am doing something I hate for you. This is what it means to be in love.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“Children were allowed to lie down on the park as it was being moved. This was considered a concession, although no one…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

[She] always knew he was a fiction but believed in him anyway.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Or maybe what he fears is just the opposite: that nobody is looking; that his death, like his life, is without purpose;…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“I knew that we were sharing something with our eyes, but I didn't know what, and I didn't know if it mattered.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

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

“I'd been someone else in a different world I'd've done something different, but I was myself, and the world was the world,…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“Their length could not be measured in years, just as an ocean could not explain the distance we have traveled, just as…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“Fuck You!' [Oskar said] 'Exuse me!' [His mom said] 'Sorry. I mean, screw you.' 'You need a time-out!' 'I need a mausoleum!”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

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

“Googol?'' ''That's a one with one hundred zeroes after it.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

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

The philosopher Elaine Scarry has observed that "beauty always takes place in the particular." Cruelty, on the other hand, prefers abstraction.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“Life overflows with imperfections, but some matter more than others”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“He spent the next weeks blocking scenes of the bureaucrat fucking his wife. On the floor with cooking ingredients. Standing, with socks…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“That ghost of a smile fell away and receded and finally faded.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer