Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" We've made science experiments of ourselves and our children. "

Jonathan Safran Foer

Related Quotes:

" The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are not merely telling a story here. We are being called to a radical act of empathy. Here we are, embarking on an ancient, perennial attempt to give human lives - our lives - dignity. "

Jonathan Safran Foer

" 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

" Look, taste is clearly the crudest of our senses: this is scientifically, objectively factual. It is less nuanced. Eyesight is extraordinary - hearing, touch. I find people who devote their whole lives to taste a little strange. "

Jonathan Safran Foer

" The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It's already happening. "

Jonathan Safran Foer

" Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness? "

Jonathan Safran Foer

" These little daily choices that we're so used to thinking are irrelevant are the most important thing we do all day long. "

Jonathan Safran Foer

" It seems entirely possible to me that horrible things can be going on without us becoming horrible people. "

Jonathan Safran Foer

" We need a better way to talk about eating animals, a way that doesn't ignore or even just shruggingly accept things like habits, cravings, family and history but rather incorporates them into the conversation. The more they are allowed in, the more able we will be to follow our best instincts. "

Jonathan Safran Foer

" I've never particularly liked bankers. "

Jonathan Safran Foer

" Oh, I'd say I like a meal as much as anybody. But I find a certain kind of foodiness silly, gluttonous and embarrassing. "

Jonathan Safran Foer

" I think there's going to be something that happens now, where books move in two directions, one toward digitized formats and one toward remembering what's nice about the physicality of them. "

Jonathan Safran Foer

" Why do I write? It's not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good writer. I write because I want to end my loneliness. "

Jonathan Safran Foer

" Books are slow, books are quiet. The Internet is fast and loud. "

Jonathan Safran Foer

" It's a good rule of thumb, it seems to me: if you're not allowed to see where something comes from, don't put it in your mouth. "

Jonathan Safran Foer

" I see myself as someone who makes things. Definitions have never done anything but constrain. "

Jonathan Safran Foer

" I will never come around to the idea of an anthropomorphic God. I'm also uncomfortable with the word 'God'... I'm agnostic about the answer and I'm agnostic about the question. "

Jonathan Safran Foer

" Again and again we are confronted with the reality - some might say the problem - of sharing our space with other living things, be they dogs, trees, fish or penguins. "

Jonathan Safran Foer

" The purpose of the Seder to my mind is to inspire conversations with your family about the human drama and hopefully transmit values to the next generation. I've always felt like this could be better. "

Jonathan Safran Foer

" You write to please yourself, you write to move yourself, to engage yourself in the asking of questions that are important to you. "

Jonathan Safran Foer

" I first became a vegetarian when I was nine, in response to an argument made by a radical babysitter. My great change - which lasted a couple of weeks - was based on the very simple instinct that it's wrong to kill animals for food. "

Jonathan Safran Foer

" There's no being wrong in seeing something in art, only being disagreed with. "

Jonathan Safran Foer

" The best books are the ones that ask the most questions. "

Jonathan Safran Foer

" Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us. "

Jonathan Safran Foer

" Living on a planet of fixed size requires compromise, and while we are the only party capable of negotiating, we are not the only party at the table. We've never claimed more, and we've never had less. "

Jonathan Safran Foer

" As a writer, putting words on the page is how I pay attention. "

Jonathan Safran Foer

" 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

" 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

" There is no greater gift than time. "

Jonathan Safran Foer

" Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity. "

Jonathan Safran Foer

" Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly. "

Jonathan Safran Foer