“When it comes to taking your own life, preparation is procrastination.” — Steve Toltz Life Copy Share Image
“The past is truly an inoperable tumour that spreads to the present.” — Steve Toltz Past Copy Share Image
“To my horror principles have wormed their way into [the] fabric of my being.” — Steve Toltz Horror Copy Share Image
...I wondered if it was blasphemous to tell God that rainbows are kitsch. — Steve Toltz Kitsch Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think the human animal doesn't really need food or water to survive, only gossip. — Steve Toltz Animal Copy Share Image
“Why groups never follow the sweet, gentle child is obvious, but I wish it would happen just once.” — Steve Toltz Child Copy Share Image
Raymond Chandler I love a lot, and the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard. I really love his voice. — Steve Toltz His 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 Boundaries Copy Share Image
“It made no sense to me that people would hate the very thing they aspired to become.” — Steve Toltz Aspired Copy Share Image
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 Book Copy Share Image
When you put so much effort to forget someone, the effort itself becomes a memory. Then you have to forget the forgetting,… — Steve Toltz Effort Copy Share Image
People carry their secrets in hidden places, not on their faces. They carry suffering on their faces. Also bitterness if there’s room. — Steve Toltz Anger 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 Arseholes Copy Share Image
“Don’t be sad for me unless you’re prepared to be sad your whole lives. Otherwise forget it. What good’s a couple of… — Steve Toltz Hard Week Copy Share Image
“I have too much free time. Free time makes people think; thinking makes people morbidly self-absorbed; and unless you are watertight and… — Steve Toltz Depression Copy Share Image
“That’s what first love is all about. What happens is you meet a love object and immediately a hole inside you starts… — Steve Toltz First love Copy Share Image
...I thought how I hate any kind of mob - I hate mobs of sports fans, mobs of environmental demonstrators, I even… — Steve Toltz Bearable Copy Share Image
The universe doesn't really care if you bounce back. It doesn't feel that weird to write about paralysis or being in hospital… — Steve Toltz Care Copy Share Image
… she gave me a look that deftly combined tenderness with revulsion. To this day the memory of that look still visits… — Steve Toltz Jehovah Copy Share Image
I don't really have an office or anything, and I like to have to move location every two hours. So I just… — Steve Toltz Anything Copy Share Image
“If there is a God, I doubt he is such a hard-liner. Rather, I imagine him greeting the men and women who… — Steve Toltz God Copy Share Image
“Betrayal wears a lot of different hats. You don’t have to make a show of it like Brutus did, you don’t have… — Steve Toltz Best friend Copy Share Image
If you wanted to pursue some kind of artistic pursuit and you had another career, then you would definitely fall back on… — Steve Toltz Art Copy Share Image
“The problem is most of the time when God’s supposed to be the hero, he comes across as the villain. I mean,… — Steve Toltz God hope Copy Share Image
“I’ll teach you how to decipher all the confused faces by closing your eyes & how to cringe when someone says the… — Steve Toltz Closing your eyes Copy Share Image
I was in the hospital and I was paralyzed and I went through all of these things. I've had all of these… — Steve Toltz Crazy Copy Share Image
I believe everything is autobiographical. If it's not strictly about you, it's your peers, your obsessions, things that make you angry, or… — Steve Toltz About yourself Copy Share Image
“While Terry joined the others in the pool, I subjected myself to a dreadful thing called musical chairs, another cruel game. There's… — Steve Toltz Children Copy Share Image
The moment seemed endless, but it was probably only half that. — Steve Toltz Endless Copy Share Image
To have a child is to be impaled daily on the spike of responsibility. — Steve Toltz Children Copy Share Image
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