We all choose things, and we also all choose against things. I want to be the kind of person who chooses for more than chooses against.
Jonathan Safran FoerJews 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 FoerI am always sad, I think. Perhaps this signifies that I am not sad at all, because sadness is something lower than your normal disposition, and I am always the same thing. Perhaps I am the only person in the world, then, who never becomes sad. Perhaps I am lucky.
Jonathan Safran FoerA few weeks after the worst day, I started writing lots of letters. I don't know why, but it was one of the only things that made my boots lighter.
Jonathan Safran Foer