I started inventing things, and then I couldn't stop, like beavers, which I know about. People think they cut down trees so they can build dams, but in reality it's because their teeth never stop growing, and if they didn't constantly file them down by cutting through all of those trees, their teeth would start to grow into their own faces, which would kill them. That's how my brain was.


Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel (ed. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013) - ISBN: 9780547416212

Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes

I started inventing things, and then I couldn't stop, like beavers, which I know about. People think they cut down trees so they can build dams, but...

I started inventing things, and then I couldn't stop, like beavers, which I know about. People think they cut down trees so they can build dams, but...

I started inventing things, and then I couldn't stop, like beavers, which I know about. People think they cut down trees so they can build dams, but...

I started inventing things, and then I couldn't stop, like beavers, which I know about. People think they cut down trees so they can build dams, but...