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
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.
shells saws
She saw through the shell of me into the center of me
flames felt
We looked at each other until it felt like everything would burst into flames
different done world
If 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, so I was silent.
mistake tree secret
And yet and yet - the last secret of the tree of codes is that nothing can ever reach a definite conclusion. Nowhere as much as there do we feel possibilities shaken by the nearness of realization. The atmosphere becomes possibilities and we shall wander and make a thousand mistakes. We shall wander along yet not be able to understand.
god-exists ifs
If god exists, he is not to be believed in.
news enough easy
Then I have some bad news for you, because humans are going to destroy each other as soon as it becomes easy enough to, which will be very soon.
why-not happened
Everything else happened - why not the things that could have?
return heard
Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.
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.