Jonathan Safran Foer Long Quotations

One of the things that I love about writing novels is that it really doesn't matter what next step you take as long as you're pursuing some intuition or instinct. Of course, then, intuitions or instincts don't make for great novels, but they often make for good first drafts.

Needless to say, jamming deformed, drugged, overstressed birds together in a filthy, waste-coated room is not very healthy. Beyond deformities, eye damage, blindness, bacterial infections of bones, slipped vertebrae, paralysis, internal bleeding, anemia, slipped tendons, twisted lower legs and necks, respiratory diseases, and weakened immune systems are frequent and long-standing problems on factory farms.

I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.

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

... the man took my passport and asked me the purpose of my visit, I wrote in my daybook, 'To mourn,' and then, 'To try to live,' he gave me a look and asked if I would consider that business or pleasure, I wrote, 'Neither.' 'For how long do you plan to mourn and try to live?' I wrote, 'For the rest of my life.

As long as I am thinking, I am alive.

For a long time, I thought I would like to be a doctor. Such a good profession. So explicitly good. Never a waste of time.

It took me as long as I had known him to get rid of all of his words. Like turning an hourglass over.

It is my great hope that our paths, however long and winding, will cross again.

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.

For how long could we fail until we surrendered?