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
why-not happened
Everything else happened - why not the things that could have?
news enough easy
Then I have some bad news for you, because humans are going to destroy each other as soon as it becomes easy enough to, which will be very soon.
god-exists ifs
If god exists, he is not to be believed in.
trying want remember
I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember
want said
You do not have to utter anything you do not want to utter,” I told her, and she said, “Then I would never utter another word again.” “You do not have to do anything that you do not want to do.” “Then I would never do anything again.
baseball children animal
Isn't it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we're doing what were doing to our food animals and feeding them to our children?
different done world
If I’d been someone else in a different world I’d've done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent.
spending getting-to-know-each-other ifs
What were we spending so much time doing if not getting to know each other?
done sickness
I would have done anything for him. Maybe that was my sickness.
thinking names people
I kept thinking how they were all names of dead people, and how names are basically the only thing dead people keep.
answers ifs
If it had and answer, it wouldn't really be love, would it?
war night boredom
Only now do I understand the war against boredom, the lost cause of empty hours, of empty days and nights.
timepieces
How did her life live itself without her.
stones empty pitcher
I didn't feel empty. I wished I'd felt empty. ... I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was full like a stone.