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
matter lows be-good
Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they're nothing." "So what's something?" "Being reliable is something. Being good.
morning memories night
We were trying to make our lives easier, trying, with all our rules, to make life effortless. But a friction began to arise between Nothing and Something, in the morning the Nothing vase cast a Something shadow, like the memory of someone you've lost, what can you say about that, at night the Nothing light spilled from the guest room spilled under the Nothing door and stained the Something hallway, there's nothing to say.
running missing-someone eye
I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like the kissing and the crying, I like the impatience, the stories that the mouth can't tell fast enough, the ears that aren't big enough, the eyes that can't take in all of the change, I like the hugging, the bringing together, the end of missing someone.
music song sadness
Songs are as sad as the listener.
our-lives
Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
hunting people hobbies
Hunting will never feed lots of people; it will always be a hobby.
life regret future
Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.
food safety responsible
Not responding is a response - we are equally responsible for what we don't do.
kids opposites goal
Raising your kids vegetarian is a great way to encourage them to do the opposite of what you want! But the goal is not to have them have the same values that I have. It's to have them act on their values.
family hate mean
One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.
hunting archery thrill
If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.
death dream selfish
It's true, I am afraid of dying. I am afraid of the world moving forward without me, of my absence going unnoticed, or worse, being some natural force propelling life on. Is it selfish? Am I such a bad person for dreaming of a world that ends when I do? I don't mean the world ending with respect to me, but every set of eyes closing with mine.
memories world stuff
We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love more than likes.
dog doe puppy
Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?