Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes

Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.

Offence is important; that's how you know you care about things. Imagine a life where you're not offended. So dull.

Unless I love something or hate it, I don't want to deal with it.

I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity.

Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.

I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up.

The fans have what they want. They want entertainment, they want passion and they want commitment.

Live shows were always religion for us. We never played a show - whether it was in front of 15 people or 15,000 - where it wasn't everything we had that night.

I think anyone that isn't fired up right now shouldn't probably be out here.

It doesn't need to be that violent and crazy and wild. Having experienced it, you don't belong to yourself anymore. You belong to the passion... It's something you have to go through to learn what passion is about.

I really emotionally invest in everything that I do.

I actually prefer teammates that have emotions. It means you care, compared to a guy that's kind of just nonchalant and goes about it like it doesn't matter. So I want guys that care. I want guys that show they care.

...the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn. If somebody hates me, they must "feel" something ... or they couldn't possibly hate. Therefore, there's some way in which I can get to them.

I'd rather deal with anger than apathy.

The absolute worst thing you can do in a scene is be apathetic.

You have to have a personal connection. You have to really want to do it, because if you don't, investing yourself personally, your thoughts, your emotions, yourself into a part, is something you're not going to want to do as much.

The best way to lose a job is just not to care. When you do not care, it shows in everything you do.

I'm an obsessive person. I like intensity.

The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous.

I have my work and my faith... If that's boring to some people, I can't tell you how much I don't care.

Well, I am obsessive about my work. I throw myself in all the way.

I don't know how many people feel strongly about what I do.

You can be passionate about anything.