Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“We shouldn't be intimidated by someone else's idea of perfection if it will prevent us from taking steps we actively want to take.”

“There are a lot of things that we crave, there are a lot of things that would make us perhaps more fulfilled in a sensory way that we just say no to.”

“These little daily choices that we're so used to thinking are irrelevant are the most important thing we do all day long.”

“When it comes to meat, change is almost always cast as an absolute. You are a vegetarian or you are not.”

“You write to please yourself, you write to move yourself, to engage yourself in the asking of questions that are important to you.”

“I am an on-and-off vegetarian. Sometimes on, mostly off. I think it is better to be a vegetarian but occasionally, the call of the hot dog overpowers my ethics.”

“The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are not merely telling a story here. We are being called to a radical act of empathy. Here we are, embarking on an ancient, perennial attempt to give human lives - our lives - dignity.”

“The question, I've come to think, is not what inspires one to change, but what inspires one to remain changed.”

“There are two kinds of sculptures. There's the kind that subtracts: Michelangelo starts with a block of marble and chips away. And then there is the kind that adds, building with clay, piling it on. The way I write novels is to keep piling on and piling on and piling on.”

“The kind of funny irony is that a lot of people talk about ethical meat eating as if it's a way to care about things, but also not to alienate yourself from the rest of the world. But it's so much more alienating than vegetarianism.”