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, userโs manual, timeline, poem or palimpsest - and yet it is all these things.
Jonathan Safran FoerIt's true, I am afraid of dying. I am afraid of the world moving forward without me, of my absence going unnoticed, or worse, being some natural force propelling life on. Is it selfish? Am I such a bad person for dreaming of a world that ends when I do? I don't mean the world ending with respect to me, but every set of eyes closing with mine.
Jonathan Safran FoerIt took me as long as I had known him to get rid of all of his words. Like turning an hourglass over.
Jonathan Safran Foer