Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Just about every children's book in my local bookstore has an animal for its hero. But then, only a few feet away in the cookbook section, just about every cookbook includes recipes for cooking animals. Is there a more illuminating illustration of our paradoxical relationship with the nonhuman world?”

“All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them.”

“Every factory-farmed animal is, as a practice, treated in ways that would be illegal if it were a dog or a cat.”

“I see myself as someone who makes things. Definitions have never done anything but constrain.”

“I'm not funny. People assume that because my books are funny, I'll be funny in real life. It's the inevitable disappointment of meeting me.”

“Is there really anyone, besides Rudy Giuliani, who prefers the new Times Square?”

“When you read something you have written, you have to confront some of the lies you have been telling yourself.”

“Look, taste is clearly the crudest of our senses: this is scientifically, objectively factual. It is less nuanced. Eyesight is extraordinary - hearing, touch. I find people who devote their whole lives to taste a little strange.”

“Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.”

“Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?”