Quote

She said, Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don't need? I said, It depends on what it means to need.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jonathan Safran Foer
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: February 21
Novelist
Writer
Washington
District of Columbia
Depends
Means
Need
Mean
Needs
Things

More quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer

Image
Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
The hardest part of writing is not to get the ideas but to remember, why it is important to get them.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
None of the ways people were talking about September 11 felt right to me. I don't buy into the way George W. Bush talks about it. I don't buy into the way the 9/11 commission talks about it. It isn't that I don't believe them. It's just that they're not the tellings for me.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
Then I have some bad news for you, because humans are going to destroy each other as soon as it becomes easy enough to, which will be very soon.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
The gift is for you...The surprise is for me.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
I need an office, so I can have a place where I don't write.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
I think after you live it's like before you lived.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
It is unrealistic to think you can have an inflexible identity that never has to give or take or make compromises.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
As a writer, putting words on the page is how I pay attention.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
Thanksgiving is the holiday that encompasses all others. All of them, from Martin Luther King Day to Arbor Day to Christmas to Valentine's Day, are in one way or another about being thankful.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
As long as I am thinking, I am alive.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
We are not long-term beings. Not heroes of romances in many volumes. For one gesture, for one word alone, we shall make the effort. We openly admit: our creations will be temporary. We shall have this as our aim: a gesture.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
Art can be very political but that can't be the purpose of art, it can't be the driving force. It isn't with any of the books that I love, anyway.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
I thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
Everything is the way it is because everything was the way it was. Sometimes I feel ensnared in this, as if no matter what I do, what will come has already been fixed.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
Be the instrument playing the sound of your life's passing
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
I zipped myself all the way into the sleeping bag of myself, not because I was hurt, and not because I had broken something, but because they were cracking up.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
I shook my tambourine the whole time, because it helped me remember that even though I was going through different neighborhoods, I was still me.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.
Jonathan Safran Foer