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
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.
confront lies telling
When you read something you have written, you have to confront some of the lies you have been telling yourself.
selective time
That's the nice thing about being a vegetarian. You don't have to be neurotic. Selective omnivores have to be neurotic. Personally, I don't have time for all that; I don't want to get into it.
formats move toward
I think there's going to be something that happens now, where books move in two directions, one toward digitized formats and one toward remembering what's nice about the physicality of them.
alienate eating ethical funny meat people rest talk
The kind of funny irony is that a lot of people talk about ethical meat eating as if it's a way to care about things, but also not to alienate yourself from the rest of the world. But it's so much more alienating than vegetarianism.
reminds
When a book remembers, we remember. It reminds you that you have a body. So many of the things we may think of as burdensome are actually the things that make us more human.
understood persons
You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you.
one-day someone-you-love
I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.
leaving forgiving coming-back
I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.
i-hate-you love-is want
She wants to know if I love her, that's all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there, like new batteries in the flashlight in the emergency kit in the hall closet.
our-lives
Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
sushi limits steak
I love sushi, I love fried chicken, I love steak. But there is a limit to my love,
misunderstood ifs
If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand.
vegetables healthy meals
You can make great meals without meat that are, of course, much more healthy for the same price, but it takes a process of reeducation, just because Americans aren't familiar with how to cook vegetables anymore.