I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.
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 have made my own choice, which is vegetarianism, but it's not the choice I'm imposing on anybody else.
Jonathan Safran FoerI want to talk about God in a literary way. But I think I would have a very hard time praying to God.
Jonathan Safran FoerWhen I heard your organization was recording testimonies, I knew I had to come. She died in my arms, saying 'I don't want to die.' That is what death is like. It doesn't matter what uniforms the soldiers are wearing. It doesn't matter how good the weapons are. I thought if everyone could see what I saw, we would never have war anymore.
Jonathan Safran Foer