J Foer Quotes

I'm not mad at you," she said. "Not even a little?" "No." "Do you still love me?" It didn't seem like the perfect time to mention that I had already made copies of the key for the deliverer from Pizza Hut, and the UPS person, and, also the nice guys from Greenpeace, so they could leave me articles on manatees and other animals that are going extinct when Stan is getting coffee. "I've never loved you more. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer

Memories are small prayers to God, if we believed in that sort of thing. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer

In the end, everyone loses everyone. There was no invention to get around that, and so I felt, that night, like the turtle that everything else in the universe was on top of. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer

Thinking about her is the next best thing! ~ Jonathan Safran Foer

Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer

But that slip of paper wouldn't disappear, ever, and neither would the image of his prostrate wife, and neither would the thought that if he could, it might greatly improve his life to end it. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer

It strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we're doing what we're doing to our food animals and feeding them to our children? ~ Jonathan Safran Foer

People who become used to saying little become used to feeling little. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer

Experts see the world differently. They notice things that nonexperts don't see. They home in on the information that matters most, and have an almost automatic sense of what to do with it. ~ Joshua Foer

According to Project Drawdown, four of the most effective strategies for mitigating global warming are reducing food waste, educating girls, providing family planning and reproductive healthcare, and collectively shifting to a plant-rich diet. The benefits of these advancements extend far beyond the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, and their primary cost is our collective effort. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer

Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer

Many memory techniques involve creating unforgettable imagery, in your mind's eye. That's an act of imagination. Creating really weird imagery really quickly was the most fun part of my training to compete in the U.S. Memory Competition. ~ Joshua Foer

Abraham didn't say, "What do you want?" He didn't say, "Yes?" He answered with a statement: "Here I am." Whatever God needs or wants, Abraham is wholly present for Him, without conditions or reservations or need for explanation. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer

The only thing worse than being sad is for others to know you are sad. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer

We believed in our grandmother's cooking more fervently than we believed in God. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer

One of the greatest opportunities to live our values-or betray them-lies in the food we put on our plates. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer

Objects that don't exist don't exist. If we were to imagine such a thing as an object that didn't exist, it would be that thing that God hated. This is the strongest argument against the nonbeliever. If God didn't exist, he would have to hate himself, and that is obviously nonsense. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer

The best books are the ones that ask the most questions. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer

Our response to the factory farm is ultimately a test of how we respond to the powerless, to the most distant, to the voiceless - it is a test of how we act when no one is forcing us to act one way or another. Consistency is not required, but engagement with the problem is. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer

My dream went all the way back to the beginning. The rain rose into the clouds, and the animals descended the ramp. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer

Farmers since the beginning of time have been feeding the world very successfully without systematically abusing animals or destroying the environment. But we're breeding food that is less safe for us, it tastes much worse than it ever has in history, and it's wreaking havoc on the environment in a way that it never did in history before. All in the interest of it being cheap. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer

Were we praying, Forgive our oppressors for what they have done? Or, Forgive us for what has been done to us? Or, Forgive You for Your inscrutability? ~ Jonathan Safran Foer

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. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer

Why would a farmer lock the doors of his turkey farm? ~ Jonathan Safran Foer

A powerful wind swept through the shtetl, making it whistle. Those studying obscure texts in dimly lit rooms looked up. Lovers making amends and promises, amendments and excuses, fell silent. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer

Everyone is always in need of something that another person can give, be it undivided attention, a kind word or deep empathy. There is no better use of a life than to be attentive to such needs. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer

It goes and keeps going. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer

If the essence of creativity is linking disparate facts and ideas, then the more facility you have making associations, and the more facts and ideas you have at your disposal, the better you'll be at coming up with new ideas. As Buzan likes to point out, Mnemosyne, the goddess of memory, was the mother of the Muses. ~ Joshua Foer

It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer

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? ~ Jonathan Safran Foer

Dear Anna, we will live in a home with no walls, so that everywhere we go will be our home. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer

Sadness and joy aren't opposites of each other. They are each the opposite of indifference. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer

I'm less worried about accomplishment - as younger people always can't help but be - and more concerned with spending my time well, spending time with my family, and reading, learning things. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer

Soccer isn't the same as Bach or Buddhism. But it is often more deeply felt than religion, and just as much a part of the community's fabric, a repository of traditions. ~ Franklin Foer

I am blind. I am supposed to be retarded. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer

Life was a small negative space cut out of the eternal solidity, and for the first time, it felt precious - not like all of the words that had come to mean nothing, but like the last breath of a drowning victim. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer

Maybe we're just missing things we've lost, or hoping for what we want to come. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer