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
The end of the world has come often, and continues to come.
hate untouchability hate-her
They learned to hate her unknowability, her untouchability, the collage of her.
morning new-york sleep
In bed that night I invented a special drain that would be underneath every pillow in New York, and would connect to the reservoir. Whenever people cried themselves to sleep, the tears would all go to the same place, and in the morning the weatherman could report if the water level of the Reservoir of Tears had gone up or down, and you could know if New York is in heavy boots.
doors waiting might
...because he had been waiting for someone to come back to him, so every time someone knocked on the door, he couldn't stop himself from hoping it might be that person, even though he knew he shouldn't hope.
falling-in-love ordinary fallen
She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love at all, but doing something much more ordinary.
night feelings paws
I woke up once in the middle of the night, and Buckminster's paws were on my eyelids. He must have been feeling my nightmares.
girl dog sadness
When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much. A calendar that showed the wrong month. I could have cried over it. I did. Where the smoke from a chimney ended. How an overturned bottle rested at the edge of a table. I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
war kissing animal
Humans are the only animal that blushes, laughs, has religion, wages war, and kisses with lips. So in a way, the more you kiss with lips, the more human you are. And the more you wage war.
coffee growth afraid-of-death
Do you have any coffee?'...'It stunts my growth, and I'm afraid of death.
writing boots letters
A few weeks after the worst day, I started writing lots of letters. I don't know why, but it was one of the only things that made my boots lighter.
talking pie hair
I can't even say 'hair pie,'' I told him, 'unless I'm talking about an actual pie made out of rabbits....
animal sign-sayings
...only someone who'd never been an animal would put up a sign saying not to feed them....
dad able your-dad
Your dad didn't die, so I won't be able to explain it to you.
children my-children knows
Even if I don't like what I am, I know what I am. My children like what they are, but they don't know what they are. So tell me which is worse.