Jonathan Safran Foer

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

- Jonathan Safran Foer

"She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum."

- Jonathan Safran Foer

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

- Jonathan Safran Foer

"You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness."

- Jonathan Safran Foer

"There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them and let them hurt me."

- Jonathan Safran Foer

"Songs are as sad as the listener."

- Jonathan Safran Foer

"Not responding is a response - we are equally responsible for what we don't do."

- Jonathan Safran Foer

"August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the year, covertly included between its pages."

- Jonathan Safran Foer

"Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living."

- Jonathan Safran Foer

"One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family."

- Jonathan Safran Foer

"Thanksgiving is the holiday that encompasses all others. All of them, from Martin Luther King Day to Arbor Day to Christmas to Valentine’s Day, are in one way or another about being thankful."

- Jonathan Safran Foer

"Thanksgiving is the meal we aspire for other meals to resemble."

- Jonathan Safran Foer

""Thanksgiving is the holiday that encompasses all others. All of them, from Martin Luther King Day to Arbor Day to Christmas to Valentine’s Day, are in one way or another about being thankful.""

- Jonathan Safran Foer

"They say that people who live next to waterfalls don’t hear the water."

- Jonathan Safran Foer