Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes

It's hard to boo a puppy. You can't boo a handful of puppies.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

The best feeling in the world is when you child just comes up to you and lays their head in your lap, for no other reason but just because.

If you forgive people enough you belong to them, and they to you, whether either person likes it or not squatter's rights of the heart.

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

I'm attached to my children with whatever flaws they have, and if some glorious angel broke through the living room ceiling and offered to exchange them for other, better children, I'd cling to my kids and pray away this specter.

What's realistic to me is that families love each other and stand by each other. What's unrealistic is that they would ever say that.

Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

My brother and I are best friends.

Kids leave us and go off on their own lives. Family members tell us what they think of us. Animals can't do that. They really are blank canvases, and we can project anything we want onto them. So the relationship is very pure and simple.

I know the disposition of women: when you will, they won't; when you won't, they set their hearts upon you of their own inclination.

Every man wants to feel that his woman would love him apart from anything else.

When your baby smiles at you with their whole body, it's enough to make me fall down.

The 'M*A*S*H' cast loves each other with unconditional love; our domestic animals love us with unconditional love.

You know someone is your favorite person when you've done a day of press, listened to yourself ad nauseam, listened to them tell every story, and when it ends, it's like, 'Are we going to eat something?'

Irrespective of which part of the world you live, family is special, and we'd do anything to protect our loved ones.

My parents' love for each other lasted throughout their whole life. They didn't give up... They accepted each other totally unconditionally.

I actually, truly do love my family. It's not a public relations exercise.

Dogs are fur repositories for everything you can't say to humans.

If you've got love for me, then I'm gonna have love for you, period.

There's a strong bond I feel with my wife. It's not that I haven't come across other attractive people in my life, but no one else was willing to put up with me.

Happiness is a warm puppy.

She thought about how it was so simple with animals. They gave their hearts without question or fear. They had no expectations. They were so easy to love. If people could only be like that, no one would ever be hurt, she thought. No one would ever need to learn how to forgive.

Love doesn't need a reason. Hate needs a reason.

I've always considered Florence as my girlfriend. I don't have to explain my love for this city.