I'd never call myself a feminist, and that the world doesn't need male feminists.

Women become breadwinners, men become caregivers. That's the birth of intimate marriage.

You have two things happening: You have the cultural and economic reality of men falling apart and traditional masculinity falling apart.

The wilderness within us is actually the best part of us.

Men who define themselves as breadwinners are going to have to leave the traditional iconography of masculinity behind if they want to be breadwinners.

When you look at the biggest study of the American dream, the number-one correlate for upward mobility is having two parents in a home. It doesn't matter if they're male or female.

Toronto may be the only city where novels are integral to high art, the alternative scene and mainstream culture all at the same time.

Whenever I read a book about a marriage, I always feel I'm being lied to.

Marriage is an an inherently contradictory state. It involves the fusion of two people into one thing. And it's also love, and it's a lot of work, and it's got glory in its drudgery.

Marriage is not one point of view: it's a constant back and forth over different perspectives - a healthy marriage, anyway.

Almost all the voices in history have been men, but on this one question of gender, men don't talk about it. This has nothing to do with women; it has to do with men.

The dead leave their shadows, an echo of the space within which once they lived. They haunt us, never fading or growing older as we do. The loss we grieve is not just their futures but our own.

Few teams sometimes fails miserably because team members wish to work in the team but they want to be recognized individualy.

A boy is naturally full of humor.

...nothing is permanent. Everything and everyone you know can change at any moment. That's how I see things now - except for you. You're the one constant in my life.

Does he or she know you, like you, and trust you? Does he want to see you succeed? Does she want to help you find new business? If so, then you have yourself a 'Personal Walking Ambassador.'

I sorrow that all fair things must decay.

You can’t think thoughts of mediocrity and expect to excel. The two don’t go together.

But painting can be too lonely... I like being with people too much to have ever made that my life's work.

Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.

When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when a man who's speaking no longer understands, it's metaphysics.