The things I wanted to be when I was a kid were an archeologist, because of dinosaur bones; a garbage man, because they got to ride on the side of the trucks; and a writer. — Nick Tosches Copy Share Image
I think the tendency with parents is to make your kid not unlike the next kid but to overprotect and say, "My way's better than whatever you've got in mind." But by the time that tie's over that shoulder and… — Nick Tosches Copy Share Image
Mortality applies to every aspect of life. The fear of death is the driving fear of life. — Nick Tosches Copy Share Image
They say nobody has the attention span to read great books early in life. If I start to read something good, I'll look and… — Nick Tosches Copy Share Image
Steiner has here transformed the vaporous conceptions of his life, the vapors of what never was and never will be, from their aeriform state to a fine and ethereal substantiality. My Unwritten Books is a gathering of shades, an elegant and eloquent gathering of mind, feeling, and autumnal passion. (...) And that is the lovely irony of this unique little… — Nick Tosches Copy Share
You're never gonna outwrite the movement of the white clouds and the blue sky. You're never going to. There are times when I try… — Nick Tosches Copy Share Image
Johnny Depp is, to me, a rare kindred spirit with like sensibilities, who has escaped the beast. He's probably one of the few people… — Nick Tosches Copy Share Image
“I believe in the power of origins, a belief that, as Ecclesiastes put it, 'that wich is done is that wich shall be done:… — Nick Tosches Copy Share Image
The appeal for drugs has dwindled. Except for actual opium. If I could get real opium, I'd stir it in my hot coffee every… — Nick Tosches Copy Share Image
My father, God bless him, thought it was such an impossible desire to be able to make a living the way I do. I… — Nick Tosches Copy Share Image
The things I wanted to be when I was a kid were an archeologist, because of dinosaur bones; a garbage man, because they got… — Nick Tosches Copy Share Image
As a young man, I felt a need to communicate with somebody or something, but it seemed in my own particular environment that that… — Nick Tosches Copy Share Image
I wanted to just get a job so I could have enough money for my own apartment and be able to get drunk. And… — Nick Tosches Copy Share Image
