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
return heard
Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.
hero things-to-do persons
Everything I did, I did because I thought it was the correct thing to do… I am not a hero, it is true… But I am not a bad person, either.
everything-is-illuminated
She was with me. She did all of those things and so many more, things I would never tell anyone, and she never even loved me. Now that’s love.
powerful mirrors telescopes
She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.
children past might
I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.
differences personality persons
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 a person's personality is: the difference between the inside and the outside.
block animal meat-industry
What the meat industry figured out is that you don't need healthy animals to make a profit. Sick animals are more profitable... Factory farms calculate how close to death they can keep animals without killing them. That's the business model. How quickly they can be made to grow, how tightly they can be packed, how much or how little can they eat, how sick they can get without dying...We live in a world in which it's conventional to treat an animal like a block of wood.
optimistic thinking pessimistic
I tried to think about other things. I tried to invent optimistic inventions. But the pessimistic ones were extremely loud.
knows hard
It was getting hard to keep all the things I didn't know inside me.
powerful intelligent one-day
If we were to one day encounter a form of life more powerful and intelligent than our own, and it regarded us as we regard fish, what would be our argument against being eaten?
confront lies telling
When you read something you have written, you have to confront some of the lies you have been telling yourself.
bad choices front goal perfect recognize somehow street stuff time
I see bad stuff on the street all the time that I don't do anything about. I do bad stuff myself all the time. The goal is not to somehow be perfect - that's silly, that's naive. The goal is to just recognize there are choices in front of us, and to try to make better ones.
answer god word
I will never come around to the idea of an anthropomorphic God. I'm also uncomfortable with the word 'God'... I'm agnostic about the answer and I'm agnostic about the question.
animal children eating inspired
My children not only inspired me to reconsider what kind of eating animal I would be, but also shamed me into reconsideration.