Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes (1977-)

“It's always possible to wake someone from sleep, but no amount of noise will wake someone who is pretending to be asleep.”

“It's always possible to wake someone from sleep, but no amount of noise will wake someone who is pretending to be asleep.”

“Accepting the compromise of the way we have been, the way we are, and the way we will likely be... may we live together in unwavering love and good health, amen.”

“Choosing to eat fewer animal products is probably the most important action an individual can take to reverse global warming—it has a known and significant effect on the environment, and, done collectively, would push the culture and the marketplace with more force than any march.”

“Climate change is the greatest crisis humanity has ever faced, and it is a crisis that we will always be called upon to solve together and simultaneously tackle on our own. We cannot maintain the type of diet we are used to and at the same time maintain the planet we are used to. We must give up some of our eating habits or give up the planet. The choice is clear and dramatic. Where were you when you made your decision?”

“Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up and you don't want your kids to grow up. And you can't have it both ways. You want your kids to become independent of you, but it's also in a way a parent's worst nightmare: for them to not need you. So, how do you reconcile those two very strong emotions? You don't. You live with that problem. It's the real tragedy of parenting. And maybe there's some sense in which in art you can have it both ways whereas in life you can't.”