Jonathan Safran Foer
Jonathan Safran Foer
Jonathan Safran Foeris an American novelist. He is best known for his novels Everything Is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, and for his non-fiction work Eating Animals. He teaches creative writing at New York University...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth21 February 1977
CountryUnited States of America
tears cry cry-tears
Only humans can cry tears.
ifs
I was more alone than if I had been alone.
being-sad knows everything-is-illuminated
The only thing worse than being sad is for others to know you are sad.
writing heart joy
I observe, I write, I try not to remember the life that I didn't want to loose but lost and have to remember, being here fills my heart with so much joy, even if the joy isn't mine, and at the end of the day I fill the suitcase with old news.
morning grateful eye
He Wrote, Are you OK? I told him, My eyes are crummy. He wrote, But are you OK? I told him, That's a very complicated question. He wrote, That's a very simple answer. I asked, Are you OK? He wrote, Some mornings I wake up feeling grateful.
ears wanted
I wanted to hit him. I wanted to hold him. I wanted to shout myself into his ear.
happenings
Things were happening around us, but nothing was happening between us.
firsts loud made
I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly made it worth it?
wanted
I wanted so much to have a life. Even just once, even for a second.
voiceless tests matter
However much we obfuscate or ignore it, we know that the factory farm is inhumane in the deepest sense of the word. And we know that there is something that matters in a deep way about the lives we create for the living beings most within our power. Our response to the factory farm is ultimately a test of how we respond to the powerless, to the most distant, to the voiceless--it is a test of how we act when no one is forcing us to act one way or another.
annoying willing ifs
I am willing to be annoying if that's what was necessary.
morning tired wife
I got tired, I told him. Not worn out, but worn through. Like one of those wives who wakes up one morning and says I can't bake any more bread.
yesterday turns wanted
Yesterday I wanted to turn inside out.
suffering fool doe
The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, what a mess I am, I thought, what a fool, how foolish and narrow, how worthless, how pinched and pathetic, how helpless.