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
thinking boys want
I wouldn't want a boy to think I was pretty unless he was the kind of boy who thought I was pretty.
compassion imagination fundamentals
What kind of world would we create if three times a day we activated our compassion and reason as we sat down to eat, if we had the moral imagination and the pragmatic will to change our most fundamental act of consumption?
hands time-passing wanted
Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
growing growing-old
Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
play car decision
Food is not just what we put in our mouths to fill up; it is culture and identity. Reason plays some role in our decisions about food, but it's rarely driving the car.
animal ninety-nine land
Ninety-nine percent of all land animals eaten or used to produce milk and eggs in the United States are factory farmed. So although there are important exceptions, to speak about eating animals today is to speak about factory farming.
moving hands remember
I felt it very moving to feel his touch, and to remember that hands can also show love.
party tables size
Living on a planet of fixed size requires compromise, and while we are the only party capable of negotiating, we are not the only party at the table. We've never claimed more, and we've never had less.
struggle might desperate
She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to justify her life.
vegetarianism choices made
I have made my own choice, which is vegetarianism, but it's not the choice I'm imposing on anybody else.
deranged
She is deranged, but so so playful.
thinking hard-times want
I want to talk about God in a literary way. But I think I would have a very hard time praying to God.
way
Everything is the way it is because everything was the way it was
children book hero
Just about every children's book in my local bookstore has an animal for its hero. But then, only a few feet away in the cookbook section, just about every cookbook includes recipes for cooking animals. Is there a more illuminating illustration of our paradoxical relationship with the nonhuman world?