“Exhausting someone in argument is not the same as convincing him” — Tim Kreider Argument Copy Share Image
“Our frantic days are really just a hedge against emptiness.” — Tim Kreider Emptiness Copy Share Image
“him a first edition of Ray Bradbury’s Dark Carnival and another who thinks I owe” — Tim Kreider Bradbury 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 Human Free 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
“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 Believe in god 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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 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
“Squandering time is a luxury of profligate youth, when the years are to us as dollars are to billionaires. Doing the same… — Tim Kreider Deadline 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
“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
“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 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“When somebody tells us something that would be disturbing or inconvenient for us to believe, we reflexively scrutinize that” — Tim Kreider Scrutinize 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
“For all his secrecy and fear of being seen, he was touched that we had observed him so closely, and with such… — Tim Kreider Being-seen 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
“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
“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
“Nobody loves newborns for who they are; they aren’t anyone yet.” — Tim Kreider Birth Copy Share Image
“master whose every whim is law. (Note to friends with children: I am referring only” — Tim Kreider Children Copy Share Image
