… she gave me a look that deftly combined tenderness with revulsion. To this day the memory of that look still visits me like a Jehovah’s Witness: uninvited and tireless. — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
“To my horror principles have wormed their way into [the] fabric of my being.” — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
I'm not sure if I always wanted to be a writer, but I was always writing. — Steve Toltz 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, look at what he did to Lot’s wife. What kind of divine being turns a man’s wife into a pillar of salt? What was her crime? Turning her head? You have to admit this is a God hopelessly… — 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 Image
...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 Image
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 and jobs in my life, but I never really write about them because I've already told them as stories to friends. For me, the process of writing is the process of invention. But the hospital story… — 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 Image
Optimism isn't funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. It's exaggeration. — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
Raymond Chandler I love a lot, and the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard. I really love his voice. — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
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