“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
“. . .It turns out that you can blow life off for as long as you want, but you still have to… — Tim Kreider Life 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
“What dooms our best efforts to cultivate empathy and compassion is always, of course, other people.” — Tim Kreider Compassion 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 Betray 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 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“When somebody tells us something that would be disturbing or inconvenient for us to believe, we reflexively scrutinize that person for some… — Tim Kreider Discredit Copy Share Image
