Jonathan Safran Foer

We've made science experiments of ourselves and our children.

Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.

Writers now are putting total faith in designers at Apple and Amazon. It's almost like a race-car driver having no input into how cars are designed.

Maybe one day the world will change, that we'll be in a luxurious position of being able to debate whether or not it's inherently wrong to eat animals, but the question doesn't matter right now.

When it comes to meat, change is almost always cast as an absolute. You are a vegetarian or you are not.

The question, I've come to think, is not what inspires one to change, but what inspires one to remain changed.

I first became a vegetarian when I was nine, in response to an argument made by a radical babysitter. My great change - which lasted a couple of weeks - was based on the very simple instinct that it's wrong to kill animals for food.

It's rarely talked about, but hunting for sport is just about as vile as we humans get.

When a book remembers, we remember. It reminds you that you have a body. So many of the things we may think of as burdensome are actually the things that make us more human.

The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are not merely telling a story here. We are being called to a radical act of empathy. Here we are, embarking on an ancient, perennial attempt to give human lives - our lives - dignity.

For a long time, I thought I would like to be a doctor. Such a good profession. So explicitly good. Never a waste of time.

Is there really anyone, besides Rudy Giuliani, who prefers the new Times Square?