Jonathan Safran Foer: Doing (page 2)

“Isn't it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we're doing what were doing to our food animals and feeding them to our children?”

“I’d rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.”

“We shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other, how many imposters do I have? Do we all make the same mistakes, or has one of us gotten it right, or even just a bit less wrong, am I the imposter?”

“Everything I did, I did because I thought it was the correct thing to do… I am not a hero, it is true… But I am not a bad person, either.”

“What do babies dream of? She must be dreaming of the before-life, just as I dream of the afterlife.”

“I saw Herschel and he saw me and we stood next to each other because that is what friends do in the presence of evil or love.”

“Chickens can do many things, but they cannot make sophisticated deals with humans.”

“I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything,' maybe that would have made the impossible possible. Maybe, but I couldn't do it, I had buried too much too deeply inside me. And here I am, instead of there.”

“I flipped back through the pad of paper while I thought about what Stephen Hawking would do next.”

“Am I such a bad person for dreaming of a world that ends when I do? I don't mean the world ending with respect to me, but every set of eyes closing with mine.”