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
writing second-chance chance
With writing, we have second chances.
heart mean people
It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can't people say what they mean at the time?
sushi limits steak
I love sushi, I love fried chicken, I love steak. But there is a limit to my love,
eye long bird
Needless to say, jamming deformed, drugged, overstressed birds together in a filthy, waste-coated room is not very healthy. Beyond deformities, eye damage, blindness, bacterial infections of bones, slipped vertebrae, paralysis, internal bleeding, anemia, slipped tendons, twisted lower legs and necks, respiratory diseases, and weakened immune systems are frequent and long-standing problems on factory farms.
confused
I never confused what I had with what I was.
running dog intelligent
Dogs are wonderful, and in many ways unique. But they are remarkably unremarkable in their intellectual and experiential capacities. Pigs are every bit as intelligent and feeling, by any sensible definition of the words. They can't hop into the back of a Volvo, but they can fetch, run and play, be mischievous, and reciprocate affection. So why don't they get to curl up by the fire? Why can't they at least be spared being tossed on the fire?
sadness hands laughing
She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness.
laughter book grateful
I'm grateful for anything that reminds me of what's possible in this life. Books can do that. Films can do that. Music can do that. School can do that. It's so easy to allow one day to simply follow into the next, but every once in a while we encounter something that shows us that anything is possible, that dramatic change is possible, that something new can be made, that laughter can be shared.
dream children party
Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose, keep in touch (or don't), care about birthdays, waste and lose time, brush their teeth, feel nostalgia, scrub stains, have religions and political parties and laws, wear keepsakes, apologize years after an offense, whisper, fear themselves, interpret dreams, hide their genitalia, shave, bury time capsules, and can choose not to eat something for reasons of conscience. The justifications for eating animals and for not eating them are often identical: we are not them.
memories holes made
Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.
thinking people would-be
If people thought about food more like how we think about the environment, a lot of people would be eating differently and the whole system would look a lot different.
struggle people
...people with nothing to declare carry the most.
mean want language
Words never mean what we want them to mean.
book want blank
I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.