The problem with the way we discuss gender is that it tends to be "Let's sympathize with women" or "Let's sympathize with men."

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.

If you want to be extremely important in people's lives, give them extremely good services they can't find anywhere else

That's the thing about fiction, that you live in it totally for a little while, but you must forget it, sometimes totally forget it, in order to go about the rest of your day.

The Witch 2015, has shown how religion make us, and when does it put us. How just by one religion a lot of people live in the lie!

Only God gets the glory when revival comes to town.

First, I prepare. Then I have faith.

All the vices lead to fortune when they are joined with the vilest of all--avarice. This is the secret of life.

I don't read blogs, I don't have MySpace, I don't have Facebook or Twitter - none of that.

A boxing contest is a brain-damage contest. Who can give out more brain damage and who can absorb more of it?

Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.

Having a magical element in a realistic setting without explanation seems to me to be the hallmark of fairy tales, which present us with a kind of metaphorical look at some aspect of our lives.