Quote

[…] but I believe that things are extremely complicated, and her looking over me was as complicated as anything could ever be. But it was also incredibly simple.

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
Believe
Incredibly
Things
Extremely
Complicated
Looking
Simple
Also
Anything
Ever

More quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer

Image
Imagine being served a plate of sushi. But this plate also holds all of the animals that were killed for your serving of sushi. The plate might have to be five feet across.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
Books are slow, books are quiet. The Internet is fast and loud.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
I'm interested in the kind of religion that makes life harder. I'm not so interested in the comforting kind of religion.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
Something having been done just about everywhere just about always is no kind of justification for doing it now.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
Jed Perl writes precisely and ecstatically. Antoine' s Alphabet is a history and a fairy tale, a work of criticism, and a work of art.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
I would have done anything for him. Maybe that was my sickness.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
It would be refreshing to have a politician try to defend guns without any reference to the Second Amendment, but on the merits of guns.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
It’s much easier to be cruel than one might think.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
I watched the sheets breathe when she breathed, like how Dad used to say that trees inhale when people exhale, because I was too young to understand the truth about biological processes.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
Books are for those without real lives, he thought. And they are no real replacement.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
Living on a planet of fixed size requires compromise, and while we are the only party capable of negotiating, we are not the only party at the table. We've never claimed more, and we've never had less.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
I wouldn't want a boy to think I was pretty unless he was the kind of boy who thought I was pretty.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
As long as I am thinking, I am alive.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
I am willing to be annoying if that's what was necessary.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
We need enormous pockets, pockets big enough for our families and our friends, and even the people who aren't on our lists, people we've never met but still want to protect. We need pockets for boroughs and for cities, a pocket that could hold the universe.
Jonathan Safran Foer