Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes

Yes, I'm often reminded of her, and in one of my array of pockets, I have kept her story to retell. It is one of the small legion I carry, each one extraordinary in its own right. Each one an attempt - an immense leap of an attempt - to prove to me that you, and your human existence, are worth it.

Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.

I have loved eight women in my life. I remember every woman's face.

You know how it is. Every time you kiss someone else, in a way you always remember that very first time.

Every play I write is about love and distance. And time. And from that we can get things like history.

Most of my rings are not expensive at all; they're just things that remind me of people that gave 'em to me. And they all have their own stories, their own meanings.

In death, we are not defined by what we did or who we were but by what we meant to others. How well we loved and were loved in return.

The best stories you usually hear are stories that people feel some type of urgency about.

Love is the ultimate theme, but it's not just for women.

The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.

Without love, most of life remains concealed. Nothing is as fascinating as love, unfortunately.

I hope that, reading 'Rosa,' people will remember their own family and friends and talk about what they did and did not do.

I can trace every romance of my life back to a meal. My memories are enhanced by the tender morsels had at tables across from lovers, on blankets with friends who'd eventually become more, in banquets, barbecues, and breakfasts.

I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like that.

I love playing in the Garden. My dad used to tell me stories about playing here. So to see that crowd, it's crazy.

Fiction is a way for writers to preserve their friendships and their romances!

I think, as most people are, I'm fascinated with love, relationships, and my daily life so I'm very inclined to make films about those things.

Love, however, is very materially assisted by a warm and active imagination: which has a long memory, and will thrive, for a considerable time, on very slight and sparing food.

and yet she was leaving the world as a woman who had love and been loved back. she was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. a mother. a person of consequence at last.

A memory is only a Prince Charming who stays just long enough to awaken the Sleeping Beauties of our wordless stories.

Life is sentimental. Why should I be cold and hard about it? That's the main content. The biggest thing in people's lives is their loves and dreams and visions, you know.

Love is just a word, but you bring it definition.

almost all novels are love stories.

Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.

When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy--that it is builded upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.