Quotes from Jonathan Safran Foer

You love an idea.' I told her, 'I love our idea.' That was the point, we were having an idea together.

long before man traveled into space, rabbis debated how one would observe Shabbat there—not because they anticipated space travel but because Buddhists strive to live with questions and Jews would rather die.

Two friends are ordering lunch. One says, 'I'm in the mood for a burger,' and orders it. The other says, 'I'm in the mood for a burger,' but remembers that there are things more important to him than what he is in the mood for at any given moment, and orders something else. Who is the sentimentalist?

None of his colleagues or friends, or former colleagues or former friends, had died. Sometimes it amazed him that he'd managed to live forty-two years without proximity to mortality. And that amazement was always followed by the fear that the statistics would catch up with him and offer a lot of death at once. And he wouldn't be ready.

Persiguiendo la felicidad nos alejamos de la satisfacción

The sum of those no ones was the King of the Universe.

People don't care enough. They don't get worked up enough. They don't get angry enough. They don't get passionate enough. I'd rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.

As a writer, putting words on the page is how I pay attention.

Consumers are going to have get used to eating less meat - to paying more for better quality meat and eating significantly less of it.

I know lots and lots and lots of vegetarians who think it's perfectly all right to kill animals for food to eat, but don't do it because they think all the ways in which it's done are wrong.

My greatest fear is feeling like a professional novelist. Somebody who creates characters, who sits down and has pieces of paper taped to the wall - what's going to happen in this scene, or this act. What I like is for it to be a much more scary, sloppy reflection of who I am.

There is an overabundance of rational reasons to say no to factory-farmed meat: It is the No. 1 cause of global warming, it systematically forces tens of billions of animals to suffer in ways that would be illegal if they were dogs, it is a decisive factor in the development of swine and avian flus, and so on.

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.

It's a rule that we never listen to sad music, we made that rule early on, songs are as sad as the listener, we hardly ever listen to music.

We believed in our grandmother's cooking more fervently than we believed in God.

If god exists, he is not to be believed in.

He was someone whom everyone admired and liked but whom nobody knew. He was like a book that you could feel good holding, that you could talk about without ever having read, that you could recommend.

All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them.

I think and think and think, I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.

We shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other.

Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?

There has yet to be a human to survive a span of history without at least one end of the world.

Dear Anna, we will live in a home with no walls, so that everywhere we go will be our home.

I hope you never think about anything as much as I think about you.