Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes

What baffled him was that there should be all this fuss about something so simple as love.

You walked in, laughing, tears welling confused, mingling in your throat. How can you be so many women to so many people, oh you strange girl?

The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants, poisons, opiates, perfumes and stenches.

Intelligence is: (a) the most complex phenomenon in the Universe; or (b) a profoundly simple process. The answer, of course, is (c) both of the above. It's another one of those great dualities that make life interesting.

What is simple is wrong, and what is complicated cannot be understood.

Everything is simpler than one can imagine, and yet complicated and inter-twined beyond comprehension.

Simplicity is a most complex form

It's all very simple, or else it's all very complex, or perhaps it's neither, or both.

How could anything so sublimely complicated not be the simple answer?

I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.

Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.

I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex.

Things are never simple when it comes to the human heart.

I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy, and driven.

Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness.

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

Loss is so paradoxical: It is at once enormous and tiny.

Being human is being a lot of things at the same time.

Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.

All of these mechanisms we have for celebrating are so double-edged. So much sorrow comes out of joy.

We are, all of us, incoherent text, and just knowing that - knowing that no matter how much you say, 'I am this' and part of you is not that - means that you can say it.

I am a simple man, though my wife says I am complicated. I'll trust her on that one.

Sometimes I wonder if the world is too interesting and too boring at the same time.

Love is very complicated and it's never black and white, as I'm sure we all know in our lives.

You can love someone and not like them.