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
end-of-the-world world ends
There has yet to be a human to survive a span of history without at least one end of the world.
grandfather faces window
Grandfather kicked the stop pedal, and my face gave a high-five to the front window.
truthfulness nomadic
We are being very nomadic with the truth, yes?
done kind justification
Something having been done just about everywhere just about always is no kind of justification for doing it now.
grandfather alex good-person
I am not a bad person. I am a good person who has lived in a bad time." Alex's grandfather..Everything is Illuminated
needs needed ifs
I did not need to know if he could love me. I needed to know if he could need me.
children hypocrisy parent
And nothing inspires as much shame as being a parent. Children confront us with our paradoxes and hypocrisies, and we are exposed. You need to find an answer for every why — Why do we do this? Why don’t we do that? — and often there isn’t a good one. So you say, simply, because. Or you tell a story that you know isn’t true. And whether or not your face reddens, you blush. The shame of parenthood — which is a good shame — is that we want our children to be more whole than we are, to have satisfactory answers.
answers doe imagine
Well, let me leave it at this: if God does exist, He would have a great deal be sad about. And if He doesn’t exist, then that too would make Him quite sad, I imagine. So to answer your question, God must be sad.
should-have suffering rooms
I wanted to cry but I didn't, I probably should have cried, I should have drowned us there in the room ending our suffering.
believe wings each-day
Each day has been chained to the previous one. But the weeks have wings. Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live my life.
hurt feelings doe
There are only so many times that you can utter ‘It does not hurt’ before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt. You become enlightened of the feeling of feeling hurt, which is worse, I am certain, than the existent hurt.
trying telling-the-truth
Try to live so that you can always tell the truth.
sweet something-sweet
and i wouldn't say no to something sweet.
rain eye moon
I dreamt four nights ago of clock hands descending from the universe like rain, of the moon as a green eye, of mirrors and insects, of a love that never withdrew. It was not the feeling of completeness that I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.