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" Parenting is love, sure, but it's as much about receiving love as it is giving it. Parenthood is a kind of vanity. "

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" That's part of fashion's promise: that a girlfriend or boyfriend or a promotion are just one tie or sweater or pair of shoes away. "

" One of the many American ideals that make no sense at all is that we're all a million rugged individualists marching in lockstep. We dress accordingly, at least the men. If it's always been thus, I yearn for the halcyon days of the man in the gray flannel suit because at least that guy had some flair. "

" Is deciding what you like an instinct, a sense that arrives as swiftly as my autoimmune response to cat dander? Or is it the result of reasoned consideration, the way wine tasters swish pinot noir around in their mouths, spit it out, and reach for complex metaphors about chocolate and tobacco? "

" Class is very, very fertile territory for American artists, and it has been for a long time. "

" For a long time, I thought that I was an enlightened parent by virtue of being an enlightened person. What a fool. "

" When my husband and I first became parents, we joked that our chubby baby was destined to grow into an Alex P. Keaton Reaganite - the most unlikely, and therefore hilarious, course for the child of an interracial gay couple in gentrifying Brooklyn. "

" I reject the notion that one should feel guilty about what you don't know. "

" Fiction is just lying. "

" Fashion has underscored the interchangeability of men for a long time, maybe from the outset. "

" That a friendship ends doesn't mean it was weak from the outset; that it ends says nothing about its importance. "

" I don't want the staggeringly wealthy Elton John and his family to represent the standard of gay fatherhood any more than straight people want the stunningly beautiful Angelina Jolie and her family to represent the standard of heterosexual parenthood. Stars are outliers; stars are exceptions. "

" Some writers are prolific; some are shape-shifters. It's rare and intimidating to encounter one who is both. "

" When I look at the list of my favorite works, writers who are women do tend to outnumber writers who are men for whatever reason. "

" Shopping for clothes is time consuming, it's tiring, and it can feel like a waste of an autumn afternoon. "

" Years ago, I worked at a fashion magazine. I was the lowest man on the totem pole, one of the only men on that particular pole: a little brother with a dozen older sisters whose grace and glamour I so admired. "

" I've spent many hours of my life browsing in stores. At 21, I admired clothes I couldn't afford. At 30, I bought them. At 40, I sometimes go simply for the pleasure, of seeing what is new, of learning what counts as beautiful now. "

" I do think that I have a sensitivity to the depictions of maybe all minorities in literature. And I think that the experience of people who look like me is so rarely captured in big, mainstream American fiction that you tend to sort of empathize with any character of color who pops up. "

" If you can't empathize with other people, then you will never really be able to write well about them. "

" A writer cannot be judged for his project, only its execution. "

" When you are what we call a 'minority writer,' a writer of color, a writer of any kind of difference, there is some kind of presumption of autobiography in everything you produce. And I find that really maddening, and I resist that. "

" I am a binge reader, with a tendency to throw myself at a writer, immerse myself in their work. "

" Checking your phone during dinner is no less rude than reading 'People' during dinner, which I once saw a woman do at Blue Ribbon Brooklyn as she dined with her husband/boyfriend/whatever. "

" Uzodinma Iweala is a fine and confident novelist. "

" Children's literature - the product of adult guesswork - often fails to account for its audience's slippery grasp on the world. "

" Form ossifies into genre through repetition. "

" Usually, when you see clothes on a model, by some transitive property, that garment is imbued with her beauty. "

" We have all come from a woman in some fashion. "

" I think that in the cultural imagination, motherhood has a primacy that fatherhood just doesn't; and that's not to say that there aren't many fathers who are active and engaged and for whom that is their life's passion. But somehow, in the imagination, there's something different about maternity. "

" Time is a finite resource. "