“Nobody loves newborns for who they are; they aren’t anyone yet.” — Tim Kreider Birth Copy Share Image
“Our frantic days are really just a hedge against emptiness.” — Tim Kreider Emptiness Copy Share Image
“master whose every whim is law. (Note to friends with children: I am referring only” — Tim Kreider Children Copy Share Image
“The police, finding a corpse with twenty-eight stab wounds in a bathtub, suspected foul play.” — Tim Kreider Humor Copy Share Image
“Exhausting someone in argument is not the same as convincing him” — Tim Kreider Argument Copy Share Image
“him a first edition of Ray Bradbury’s Dark Carnival and another who thinks I owe” — Tim Kreider Copy Share Image
“. . .It turns out that you can blow life off for as long as you want, but you still have to… — Tim Kreider Copy Share Image
“It’s easy to demonstrate how progressive and open-minded and loyal you are when it costs you nothing.” — Tim Kreider Loyalty Copy Share Image
“What dooms our best efforts to cultivate empathy and compassion is always, of course, other people.” — Tim Kreider Compassion Copy Share Image
“The Puritans turned work into a virtue, evidently forgetting that God invented it as a punishment.” — Tim Kreider Puritans Copy Share Image
“Oh, yes.” I’ve known kisses so narcotic they made my eyes roll back in my head. For a few weeks one winter… — Tim Kreider Kisses Copy Share Image
“Jenny Boylan might be the one person in this world whom I now think of purely as a human being, free of… — Tim Kreider Copy Share Image
“Most of us liberals are so worried that we might secretly be racists that we’re convinced this means we cannot really be… — Tim Kreider Liberals Copy Share Image
“The Soul Toupee is that thing about ourselves we are most deeply embarrassed by and like to think we have cunningly concealed… — Tim Kreider Self deception Copy Share Image
“I've demonstrated an impressive resilience in the face of valuable life lessons, and the main thing I seem to have learned from… — Tim Kreider Ignorance Copy Share Image
“This is one reason people need to believe in God—because we want someone to know us, truly, all the way through, even… — Tim Kreider Copy Share Image
“The only people who seem to believe in the phenomenon of men and women just being good friends all seem to have… — Tim Kreider Friends Copy Share Image
“I can’t help but wonder whether all this histrionic exhaustion isn’t a way of covering up the fact that most of what… — Tim Kreider Exhaustion Copy Share Image
“It turns out that when there is some conspicuous gap or contradiction at the center of someone's existence, there is probably a… — Tim Kreider Personality Copy Share Image
“Idleness is not just a vacation, an indulgence or a vice; it is as indispensable to the brain as vitamin D is… — Tim Kreider Idleness Copy Share Image
“Defriending isn’t just unrecognized by some social oversight; it’s protected by its own protocol, a code of silence. Demanding an explanation wouldn’t… — Tim Kreider Friend Copy Share Image
“I sometimes like to daydream that if we were all somehow simultaneously outed as lechers and perverts and sentimental slobs, it might… — Tim Kreider Daydream Copy Share Image
“What someone’s lies reveal about them (aspirations to being an accomplished writer, fantasies of an exotic history and a cosmopolitan family) are… — Tim Kreider Dark matter Copy Share Image
“Learning how to transform mere ignorance into mystery, simple not knowing into wonder, is a useful skill. Because it turns out that… — Tim Kreider Curiosity Copy Share Image
“The truth is, people are ravenous for sex, sociopaths for love. I sometimes like to daydream that if we were all somehow… — Tim Kreider Love Copy Share Image
“Squandering time is a luxury of profligate youth, when the years are to us as dollars are to billionaires. Doing the same… — Tim Kreider Copy Share Image
“Because the end of a friendship isn’t even formally acknowledged—no Little Talk, no papers served—you walk around effectively heartbroken but embarrassed to… — Tim Kreider Best friend Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the reason we so often experience happiness only in hindsight, and that chasing it is such a fool’s errand, is that… — Tim Kreider Dreams Copy Share Image
“Grown-ups aren’t supposed to talk about “best friends,” but he was among my closest and certainly my most constant friend from then… — Tim Kreider Best friend Copy Share Image
“I wish I could recommend the experience of not being killed to everyone.” — Tim Kreider Death Copy Share Image
“Time makes us all betray ourselves and get back to the busy work of living” — Tim Kreider Copy Share Image
“Because the essence of creativity is fucking around; art is that which is done for the hell of it.” — Tim Kreider Art Copy Share Image
“When somebody tells us something that would be disturbing or inconvenient for us to believe, we reflexively scrutinize that” — Tim Kreider Copy Share Image
“We mistakenly imagine we want 'happiness,' when we tend to picture in vague, soft-focus terms, when what we really crave is the… — Tim Kreider Happiness Copy Share Image
“If you manage to make it to some semblance of adulthood, just showing up turns out to be one of the kindest,… — Tim Kreider Adulthood Copy Share Image
