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

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.

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.

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

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.

My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.

Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.

Chasms are deceived by rumors of their depth.

..each bloodletting hastens the next, and as the value of human life is degraded and violence becomes tolerated, the unimaginable becomes more conceivable.

We're almost like Bonnie & Clyde. Of course, he's Bonnie and I'm Clyde.

I think training and being dedicated is very important, but one aspect that I always live by is that I enjoy myself in what I do!

I find it next to impossible to remain politely silent when people prate to me about the glory of being given another chance to live happily ever after!

Leslie had learned two valuable things about the fae that day. They were powerful and charming -- and they ate children and puppies.

I was talking about no nukes, the farm crisis. People said that wasn't stuff that a state auditor was supposed to be talking about. Maybe they were right.

If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.