Writer Quotes by Nick Tosches

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

— 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 look and…

— Nick Tosches

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

— Nick Tosches

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

— 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 I try…

— 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 few people…

— Nick Tosches

“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

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

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

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

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

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

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

— 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 around memos…

— Nick Tosches

I don't have a college degree.

— Nick Tosches