Nick Tosches

The older you get, the more you live with ghosts.

— Nick Tosches

I don't have a college degree.

— Nick Tosches

You see, I needed to go to Hell.

— Nick Tosches

I think Elvis Presley will never be solved

— Nick Tosches

Life is a racket. Writing is a racket. Sincerity is a racket. Everything's a racket.

— Nick Tosches

Mortality applies to every aspect of life. The fear of death is the driving fear of life.

— Nick Tosches

For years, I never really pondered how I came to be a writer from where I came from.

— Nick Tosches

“But the lie often repeated becomes history, and the snake-oil pitchman's forgery of yore becomes the inspirational gospel of a posterity that…

— Nick Tosches

When I was young, I kept trying to read 'Moby-Dick', and I couldn't get that far into it. And I kept thinking,…

— Nick Tosches

Joe Bonomo has written a fine book: a book not only about a band or times passed, but also about the rare…

— Nick Tosches

People think they're gonna make a living off poetry. Ten years ago, maybe a couple of people did. Right now, no one,…

— Nick Tosches

Johnny Depp is, to me, a rare kindred spirit with like sensibilities, who has escaped the beast. He's probably one of the…

— Nick Tosches

They say nobody has the attention span to read great books early in life. If I start to read something good, I'll…

— Nick Tosches

The things I wanted to be when I was a kid were an archeologist, because of dinosaur bones; a garbage man, because…

— Nick Tosches

I often wonder if I had the complete freedom to not have to write, if I would write. That's the one mystery…

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The appeal for drugs has dwindled. Except for actual opium. If I could get real opium, I'd stir it in my hot…

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I don't know if enjoy is the right word for alcohol. I like to drink, but I don't like enforced social drinking.…

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We're finite creatures, doomed to never get a fraction of what wisdom it would take to deal with infinity. My book has…

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My most recent novel didn't start out scaring me, but as I got deeper into writing it, it scared me. It's not…

— Nick Tosches

You're never gonna outwrite the movement of the white clouds and the blue sky. You're never going to. There are times when…

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The difference of human being behind the guy on the page is in writing, I'm no longer conscious of personal repercussions because…

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The main event is freedom. I often wonder if I had the complete freedom to not have to write, if I would…

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“Exceptional men do not hold their experiences to be out of the ordinary or of interest to anyone else. Unlike the trodden…

— Nick Tosches

You got guys that are so old, you see them eating lunch, the drool's just coming from their mouth, and they're sending…

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“And, of course, that is what all of this is - all of this: the one song, ever changing, ever reincarnated, that…

— Nick Tosches

Steiner has here transformed the vaporous conceptions of his life, the vapors of what never was and never will be, from their…

— Nick Tosches

People speaking into handheld devices while they walk down the street and saying to the device, "I'm walking down the street now."…

— Nick Tosches

As a young man, I felt a need to communicate with somebody or something, but it seemed in my own particular environment…

— Nick Tosches

My father, God bless him, thought it was such an impossible desire to be able to make a living the way I…

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How do I start writing a book? I sit there, I come up with an opening line, and then I go little…

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The thing is, the more you fear death, the more you die. So it really doesn't pay off. It's a fear of…

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I've gone more than 40 years without having to use an alarm clock or go to an office. At this point, I…

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I wanted to just get a job so I could have enough money for my own apartment and be able to get…

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I think the tendency with parents is to make your kid not unlike the next kid but to overprotect and say, "My…

— Nick Tosches

To me, music's something I can dance to or listen to. To write about it is always more of what the music…

— Nick Tosches

“I believe in the power of origins, a belief that, as Ecclesiastes put it, 'that wich is done is that wich shall…

— Nick Tosches