“The truth is, there are not two kinds of people. There’s only one: the kind that loves to divide up into gangs who hate each other’s guts. Both conservatives and liberals agree among themselves, on their respective message boards, in… — Tim Kreider 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 simultaneously outed as lechers and perverts and sentimental slobs, it might be, after the initial shock of disillusionment,… — 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 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 happiness isn’t… — 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 freely, without… — Tim Kreider 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, your friendship… — Tim Kreider 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
“Biblical, Talmudic, or Koranic literalists remind me of children wrinkling their noses at Belon oysters and asking for more Chef Boy-E-Dee. They want the… — 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 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 racists.)” — Tim Kreider 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 always sadder… — Tim Kreider Copy Share Image
