Men are so necessarily mad that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

-Pascal

It’s one of the maddening perversities of human psychology that we only notice we’re alive when we’re reminded we’re going to die, the same way some of us appreciate our girlfriends only after they’ve become exes.

-Tim Kreider

Eventually the swollen cities will rupture like dehiscent wombs and disperse their children back to the countryside.

-Tim Kreider

I don’t know why we take our worst moods so much more seriously than our best, crediting depression with more clarity than euphoria. We dismiss peak moments and passionate love affairs as an ephemeral chemical buzz, just endorphins or hormones, but accept those 3 A.M. bouts of despair as unsentimental insights into the truth about our lives.

-Tim Kreider