“He had a wall of masks from every country he‘d been to, like Armenia and Chile and Ethiopia. It‘s not a horrible world, he told me, but it‘s filled with a lot of horrible people.”

—  Jonathan Safran Foer , book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)

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