Each day has been chained to the previous one. But the weeks have wings. Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live my life.
Jonathan Safran FoerThe end of suffering does not justify the suffering, and so there is no end to suffering.
Jonathan Safran FoerAnd nothing inspires as much shame as being a parent. Children confront us with our paradoxes and hypocrisies, and we are exposed. You need to find an answer for every why โ Why do we do this? Why donโt we do that? โ and often there isnโt a good one. So you say, simply, because. Or you tell a story that you know isnโt true. And whether or not your face reddens, you blush. The shame of parenthood โ which is a good shame โ is that we want our children to be more whole than we are, to have satisfactory answers.
Jonathan Safran FoerWhen we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.
Jonathan Safran Foer