When people come up to me and say, 'I read your book,' I'm thinking, 'How dare you! Who gave you a copy?' — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
I think that's the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the boundaries that will limit your potential. — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think the human animal doesn't really need food or water to survive, only gossip. — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
Sometimes they [people] throw off their freedom so quickly, you'd think it was burning them. — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
After all, memory may be the only thing on earth we can truly manipulate to serve us, so we don't have to… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
I know you're supposed to hide your influences, but I suppose I see writing as riffing, really, about whatever you have been… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
It's the idea of baggage. When you hear about people in their 40s boast about not having baggage. I think having no… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
There's this quote by a writer, Emil Cioran, he's a Romanian writer. He says that you should only put things in books… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
I feel that there are two kinds of writers. I feel that there are writers who are storytellers and then there are… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
There’s nothing wonderful or interesting about unrequited love. I think it’s shitty, just plain shitty. To love someone who doesn’t return your… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
“To my horror principles have wormed their way into [the] fabric of my being.” — Steve Toltz Copy Share
“The problem is most of the time when God’s supposed to be the hero, he comes across as the villain. I mean, look at… — Steve Toltz Copy Share
[I'll teach you] how not to leave the windows of your heart open when it looks like rain and how everyone has a stump… — Steve Toltz Copy Share
...I thought how I hate any kind of mob - I hate mobs of sports fans, mobs of environmental demonstrators, I even hate mobs… — Steve Toltz Copy Share
I was in the hospital and I was paralyzed and I went through all of these things. I've had all of these crazy experiences… — Steve Toltz Copy Share
Let’s not mince words: the inside of the Sydney casino looks as if Vegas had an illegitimate child with Liberace’s underpants, and that child… — Steve Toltz Copy Share
Optimism isn't funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. It's exaggeration. — Steve Toltz Copy Share
There's nothing perplexing to me about a leafy shrub evolving out of the big bang, but that the post office exists because carbon exploded… — Steve Toltz Copy Share
The game is an analogy for life: there are not enough chairs or good times to go around, not enough food, not enough joy,… — Steve Toltz Copy Share
Raymond Chandler I love a lot, and the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard. I really love his voice. — Steve Toltz Copy Share
The universe doesn't really care if you bounce back. It doesn't feel that weird to write about paralysis or being in hospital or losing… — Steve Toltz Copy Share
“The world's not falling apart imperceptibly anymore, these days it makes a loud shredding noise!” — Steve Toltz Copy Share
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