“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
“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
“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 Kisses 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 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
