“All of my books are about two people trying to talk to each other. Everything that I’ve ever written is about people trying to talk to each other and the total impossibility of ever saying actually what you want to say and being understood exactly as you want to be understood and the worth of trying. The books are not depressing. They are not about how we’ll never be able to communicate. They are about how we continually try to communicate and how those efforts are so important and so beautiful.” - Jonathan Safran Foer