“To my horror principles have wormed their way into [the] fabric of my being.” — Steve Toltz Principles Copy Share Image
I'm not sure if I always wanted to be a writer, but I was always writing. — Steve Toltz Always 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 not to leave the windows of your heart open when it looks like rain and how everyone has… — Steve Toltz Heart 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
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
Let’s not mince words: the inside of the Sydney casino looks as if Vegas had an illegitimate child with Liberace’s underpants, and… — Steve Toltz Casinos 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 Exaggeration 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… — Steve Toltz Bangs 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… — Steve Toltz Air 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
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
“The world's not falling apart imperceptibly anymore, these days it makes a loud shredding noise!” — Steve Toltz A-fraction-of-the-whole 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
“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
“Why groups never follow the sweet, gentle child is obvious, but I wish it would happen just once.” — Steve Toltz Children 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
I groaned. Man and his codes! Even in a lawless inferno, man has to give himself some honor, he's so desperate to… — Steve Toltz Beast 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
Negotiating with memories isn't easy: how to choose between those panting to be told, those still ripening, those already shriveling, and those… — Steve Toltz Easy Copy Share Image
Sometimes not talking is effortless, and other times it’s more exhausting than lifting pianos. — Steve Toltz Effortless Copy Share Image
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