The books could be completely worthless, and things we don't even read now could be considered the most important books.
Jonathan Safran FoerThey learned to hate her unknowability, her untouchability, the collage of her.
Jonathan Safran FoerThese little daily choices that we're so used to thinking are irrelevant are the most important thing we do all day long.
Jonathan Safran FoerThink of the beginning of the story of the beginning of everything: Adam (without Eve and without divine guidance) names the animals. Continuing his work, we call stupid people bird-brained, cowardly people chickens, fools turkeys. Are these the best names we have to offer? If we can revise the notion of women coming from a rib, canโt we revise our categorizations of the animals that, draped with barbecue sauce, end up as the ribs on our dinner plates โ or for that matter, the KFC in our hands?
Jonathan Safran Foer