Culture is always the echo of economic realities; that's what Marx teaches. Feminism is a clear example of that.

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.

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.

The only time that exists in life is now.

I have won.

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worthwhile.

After the brain tumor happened, I realized I love acting, I've always loved it, I may never get a chance to do it again.

Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.

I think, for me, when I direct my own work it's just an extension of the authorship.

Where we have good, testable explanations, they then have to be tested, and we drop the ones that fail the tests.

I say let Matteo Renzi work. He took over a country that was in disarray, not florid. And not the other way around.

Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always.

By one delay after another they spin out their whole lives, till there's no more future left for them.