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.
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.
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.
vegetarianism people trying
I can't count the times that upon telling someone I am vegetarian, he or she responded by pointing out an inconsistency in my lifestyle or trying to find a flaw in an argument I never made. (I have often felt that my vegetarianism matters more to such people than it does to me.)
deranged
She is deranged, but so so playful.
sophisticated chickens deals
Chickens can do many things, but they cannot make sophisticated deals with humans.
what-if ifs inventing
What if I never stop inventing?
making-love together doe
Sometimes I imagined stitching all of our little touches together. How many hundreds of thousands of fingers brushing against each other does it take to make love? Why does anyone ever make love?
holes spaniels
Succotash my cocker spaniel, you fudging crevasse-hole dipshiitake!
comforting kind harder
I'm interested in the kind of religion that makes life harder. I'm not so interested in the comforting kind of religion.
meat vegetarian casts
When it comes to meat, change is almost always cast as an absolute. You are a vegetarian or you are not.
vegetarianism choices made
I have made my own choice, which is vegetarianism, but it's not the choice I'm imposing on anybody else.