What's so horrible about being dead forever, and not feeling anything, and not even dreaming? What's so great about feeling and dreaming? Jonathan Safran Foer More Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer More Quotes From Jonathan Safran Foer Succotash my cocker spaniel, you fudging crevasse-hole dipshiitake! Jonathan Safran Foer spanielsholes This is the sixty-nine," I told him, presenting the magazine in front of him. I put my fingers -- two of them -- on the action, so that he would not overlook it. "Why is it dubbed sixty-nine?" he asked, because he is a person hot on fire with curiosity. "It was invented in 1969. My friend Gregory knows a friend of the nephew of the inventor." "What did people do before 1969?" "Merely blowjobs and masticating box, but never in chorus. Jonathan Safran Foer firetwopeople Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It is not a work of history or philosophy, not a prayer book, user’s manual, timeline, poem or palimpsest - and yet it is all these things. Jonathan Safran Foer prayerphilosophybook In America right now, we use words like 'smart' to talk about bombs. American rhetoric is grounded in ideas of capital-G Good, capital-E Evil, and it's very clear who is on which side. But in a book you can do just the opposite. You can use all lower-case words. Jonathan Safran Foer smartoppositesbook We shouldn't be intimidated by someone else's idea of perfection if it will prevent us from taking steps we actively want to take. Jonathan Safran Foer perfectionwantideas We've made science experiments of ourselves and our children. Jonathan Safran Foer our-childrenmadechildren 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 accomplishmentreadingpeople My greatest fear is feeling like a professional novelist. Somebody who creates characters, who sits down and has pieces of paper taped to the wall - what's going to happen in this scene, or this act. What I like is for it to be a much more scary, sloppy reflection of who I am. Jonathan Safran Foer wallreflectioncharacter People who care about animals tend to care about people. They don't care about animals to the exclusion of people. Caring is not a finite resource and, even more than that, it's like a muscle: the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets. Jonathan Safran Foer caringexerciseanimal There are two kinds of sculptures. There's the kind that subtracts: Michelangelo starts with a block of marble and chips away. And then there is the kind that adds, building with clay, piling it on. The way I write novels is to keep piling on and piling on and piling on. Jonathan Safran Foer blockwritingtwo There is a glaring reason that the necessary total ban on nontherapeutic use of antibiotics hasn't happened: The factory farm industry, allied with the pharmaceutical industry, has more power than public-health professionals. Jonathan Safran Foer health-professionalsantibioticsuse I often think about how my sons will come to know about September 11th. Something overheard? A newspaper image? In school? I would prefer that they learn about it from my wife and me, in a deliberate and safe way. But it's hard to imagine ever feeling ready to broach the subject without some impetus. Jonathan Safran Foer schoolsonthinking I usually write away from home, in coffee shops, on trains, on planes, in friends’ houses. I like places where there’s stuff going on that you can lift your eyes, see something interesting, overhear a conversation. Jonathan Safran Foer coffeehomewriting I started inventing things, and then I couldn't stop, like beavers, which I know about. People think they cut down trees so they can build dams, but in reality it's because their teeth never stop growing, and if they didn't constantly file them down by cutting through all of those trees, their teeth would start to grow into their own faces, which would kill them. That's how my brain was. Jonathan Safran Foer cuttingrealitythinking The secret was a hole in the middle of me that every happy thing fell into. Jonathan Safran Foer holesmiddlesecret We were quiet on the car ride home. I turned on the radio and found a station playing "Hey Jude." It was true, I didn't want to make it bad. I wanted to take the sad song and make it better. It's just that I didn't know how. Jonathan Safran Foer carhomesong We tried so hard. We were always trying to help each other. But not because we were helpless. He needed to get things for me, just as I needed to get things for him. It gave us purpose. Sometimes I would ask him for something that I did not even want, just to let him get it for me. We spent our days trying to help each other help each other. I would get his slippers. He would make my tea. I would turn up the heat so he could turn up the air conditioner so I could turn up the heat. Jonathan Safran Foer always-tryingairtea The world is a big place," he said, "but so is the inside of an apartment! Jonathan Safran Foer bigssaidworld The philosopher Elaine Scarry has observed that "beauty always takes place in the particular." Cruelty, on the other hand, prefers abstraction. Jonathan Safran Foer crueltyphilosopherhands She said, "Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don't need?" I said, "It depends on what it means to need. Jonathan Safran Foer saidmeanneeds
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