Quotes by : Tim Kreider

Society doesn't officially recognize friendship as an institution in the way it recognizes sexual relationships,....

Let me propose that if your beliefs or convictions matter more to you than people—if they require you....

It turns out that when there is some conspicuous gap or contradiction at the center of someone's existence,....

I wish I could recommend the experience of not being killed to everyone.

Anytime I hear about another one of us gone berserk, shooting up his ex’s office or drowning her kids....

I don't know why we take our worst moods so much more seriously than our best, crediting depression with....

At a certain age our parents offhandedly start telling us things we’ve never heard before, about themselves....

Biblical, Talmudic, or Koranic literalists remind me of children wrinkling their noses at Belon oysters....

Perhaps the reason we so often experience happiness only in hindsight, and that any deliberate campaign....

We tend to make up [stories] in the same circumstances in which people come up with conspiracy theories:....