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

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.

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.

Let the night take you. Let the stars evaporate into your dreams. Let sleep be the only comfort for you to believe.

One has to manage alone as best one can. (Karin Bergman)

True leaders are like statues, whether it rains or it shines, they never bend their necks to look backwards! They never run away from challenges!

Laughter is always fatal to feeling.

I would spend my nights at home but if it means contention. I'd rather be alone tell the service man cut the phones.

Liberalism is a mental disorder.

And I really haven't done a damn thing.

Give me a theme," the little poet cried, "And I will do my part," "'Tis not a theme you need," the world replied; "You need a heart.

... man cannot help but transcend himself as soon as he begins to design and construct.

Sutures of lightning tightened the edges of the sky.