I am not a bad person. I am a good person who has lived in a bad time." Alex's grandfather..Everything is Illuminated
Jonathan Safran FoerAll really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them.
Jonathan Safran FoerThis is my heart. You are touching it with your left hand. You are touching it with your left hand, not because you are left-handed, although you might be, but because I am holding it against my heart. What you are feeling is the beating of my heart. It is what keeps me alive.
Jonathan Safran FoerI usually write away from home, in coffee shops, on trains, on planes, in friendsโ houses. I like places where thereโs stuff going on that you can lift your eyes, see something interesting, overhear a conversation.
Jonathan Safran FoerIt will never be the case that people won't eat meat. I think it could conceivably be the case one day that people eat very small amounts of it. That it's a special thing, rather than reach for it because it's cheap or reach for it because it's convenient, that it becomes something festive or something celebratory, once a week, and that could actually be achieved on small farms if we really changed our habits.
Jonathan Safran Foer