I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone.
Jonathan Safran FoerI always write out of a need to read something, rather than a need to write something.
Jonathan Safran Foer[Grandfather] would manufacture funnies with Grandmother before she died about how he was in love with other women who were not her. She knew it was only funnies because she would laugh in volumes. 'Anna,' he would say, 'I am going to marry that one with the pink hat.' And she would say, 'To whom are you going to marry her?' And he would say, 'To me.' I would laugh very much in the back seat, and she would say to him, 'But you are no priest.' And he would say, 'I am today.' And she would say, 'Today you believe in God?' And he would say, 'Today I believe in love.
Jonathan Safran Foer