“What I could relate to was the common fear that you are secretly so uniquely screwed-up that there is no way anyone… — Tim Kreider Fear Copy Share Image
“Because there’s no formal etiquette for ending a friendship, most people do it in the laziest, most passive and painless way possible,… — Tim Kreider Ending friendship Copy Share Image
“Biblical, Talmudic, or Koranic literalists remind me of children wrinkling their noses at Belon oysters and asking for more Chef Boy-E-Dee. They… — Tim Kreider Children Copy Share Image
“Introducing these people to our friends and family is, in a way, more heedlessly exhibitionistic than posting nude photos or sex tapes… — Tim Kreider Dreams Copy Share Image
“We have irreconcilable visions of the kind of country we want this to be: some of us would just like to live… — Tim Kreider Canada Copy Share Image
“I have never even idly thought for a single passing second that it might make my life nicer to have a small… — Tim Kreider Children Copy Share Image
“One reason we rush so quickly to the vulgar satisfactions of judgment, and love to revel in our righteous outrage, is that… — Tim Kreider Empathy Copy Share Image
“Often you don’t know whether you’re the hero of a romantic comedy or the villain on a Lifetime special until the restraining… — Tim Kreider Humor Copy Share Image
“My feeling toward Republicans is like my feeling about sharks: of course they're stupid and vicious. It's in their nature to be… — Tim Kreider Computers Copy Share Image
“A friend of mine reports that all the women he's polled have been enthusiastic advocates of the bold romantic gesture, but this,… — Tim Kreider Friendship 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
“Most of my married friends now have children, the rewards of which appear to be exclusively intangible and, like the mysteries of… — Tim Kreider Children Copy Share Image
“At a certain age our parents offhandedly start telling us things we’ve never heard before, about themselves and their families, their upbringing… — Tim Kreider Family Copy Share Image
“The truth is, there are not two kinds of people. There’s only one: the kind that loves to divide up into gangs… — Tim Kreider Anger Copy Share Image
“I don’t know why we take our worst moods so much more seriously than our best, crediting depression with more clarity than… — Tim Kreider Depression Copy Share Image
“For all his secrecy and fear of being seen, he was touched that we had observed him so closely, and with such… — Tim Kreider Copy Share Image
“But then anytime you join in a mass movement you’re going to find yourself standing alongside idiots. One reason people go to… — Tim Kreider Copy Share Image
“It’s hard to find anything to say about life without immersing yourself in the world, but it’s also just about impossible to… — Tim Kreider Life Copy Share Image
“If there is some divine plan that requires my survival and the deaths of all those children in day care, I respectfully… — Tim Kreider Children Copy Share Image
“Let me propose that if your beliefs or convictions matter more to you than people—if they require you to act as though… — Tim Kreider Belief Copy Share Image
“It’s always a sad revelation when a good friend acquires a girlfriend or a husband and disappears. You realize that, for them,… — Tim Kreider Friend Copy Share Image
“When somebody tells us something that would be disturbing or inconvenient for us to believe, we reflexively scrutinize that person for some… — Tim Kreider Copy Share Image
“The same thing that makes friendship so valuable is what makes it so tenuous: it is purely voluntary. You enter into it… — Tim Kreider Effort Copy Share Image
“Anytime I hear about another one of us gone berserk, shooting up his ex’s office or drowning her kids to free herself… — Tim Kreider Anger Copy Share Image
“Most people are just too self-absorbed, well-meaning, and lazy to bother orchestrating Machiavellian plans to slight or insult us. It’s more often… — Tim Kreider Anger Copy Share Image
“Watching middle-class conservatives vote for politicians who've proudly pledged to screw them and their children over fills me with the same exasperated… — Tim Kreider Children Copy Share Image
