Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
You do not have to utter anything you do not want to utter,” I told her, and she said, “Then I would never utter another word again.” “You do not have to do anything that you do not want to do.” “Then I would never do anything again.
Foer, Jonathan Safran. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. Houghton Mifflin, 2005.
In 1986 many scientists opposed the wisdom and feasibility of the administration's Strategic Arms Initiative. The director suggested that scientists who opposed government policies not be given government research grants. There was much protest about this seeming infringement of freedom of speech:
Jonathan Safran Foer is an American novelist. He is known for his novels Everything Is Illuminated (2002), Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2005), Here I Am (2016), and for his non-fiction works Eating Animals (2009) and We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast (2019). He teaches creative writing at New York University.