“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
“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
“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 Friendship 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
“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
“Idleness is not just a vacation, an indulgence or a vice; it is as indispensable to the brain as vitamin D is… — Tim Kreider Procrastination 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
“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
“him a first edition of Ray Bradbury’s Dark Carnival and another who thinks I owe” — Tim Kreider 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
“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
“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
“The police, finding a corpse with twenty-eight stab wounds in a bathtub, suspected foul play.” — Tim Kreider Humor 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
“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
“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
“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
“The Puritans turned work into a virtue, evidently forgetting that God invented it as a punishment.” — Tim Kreider Work 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
“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
“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 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 Dreams Copy Share Image
