“Nobody loves newborns for who they are; they aren’t anyone yet.” — Tim Kreider Birth Copy Share Image
“Our frantic days are really just a hedge against emptiness.” — Tim Kreider Emptiness 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
“When somebody tells us something that would be disturbing or inconvenient for us to believe, we reflexively scrutinize that” — Tim Kreider 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
“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
“. . .It turns out that you can blow life off for as long as you want, but you still have to… — Tim Kreider Copy Share Image
“Time makes us all betray ourselves and get back to the busy work of living” — Tim Kreider Copy Share Image
“I wish I could recommend the experience of not being killed to everyone.” — Tim Kreider Death 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Exhausting someone in argument is not the same as convincing him” — Tim Kreider Argument 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
“him a first edition of Ray Bradbury’s Dark Carnival and another who thinks I owe” — Tim Kreider Copy Share Image
“master whose every whim is law. (Note to friends with children: I am referring only” — Tim Kreider Children 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
“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
