Optimism isnt funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. Its exaggeration. — Steve Toltz Exaggeration 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
There are men put on this earth to make laws designed to break the spirits of men. There are those put here… — Steve Toltz Break 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 write fiction, there's no guarantee that what I say is truthful. — Steve Toltz Truth Copy Share Image
That's how we slide, and while we slide we blame the world's problems on colonialism, imperialism, capitalism, corporatism, stupid white men, and… — Steve Toltz America Copy Share Image
“When it comes to taking your own life, preparation is procrastination.” — Steve Toltz Life 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
Regrets came up and asked me if I’d like to own them. Declined them for the most part but took a few… — Steve Toltz Empty Copy Share Image
If I've written five pages by hand, out of those five pages, one page might be worth saving. The rest is crap.… — Steve Toltz Away Copy Share Image
What a nasty act of cruelty, giving a dying man his last wish. Don't you realize he doesn't want it? His real… — Steve Toltz Cruelty Copy Share Image
“Nuclear energy is a waste of time. They should go about harnessing the power of the unconscious when it is in the… — Steve Toltz Death Copy Share Image
“I couldn't think of anything other than her and the components of her. For example, her red hair. But was I so… — Steve Toltz First love Copy Share Image
“We were lazy people on an adventure, flirting with life but too shy to go all the way.” — Steve Toltz Adventure Copy Share Image
“The Buddhists are right. Guilty men are not sentenced to death, they are sentenced to life.” — Steve Toltz Buddhism 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 never thought that it would take me so long to do something. I thought everything was temporary and sometimes the best… — Steve Toltz Book Copy Share Image
“The past is truly an inoperable tumour that spreads to the present.” — Steve Toltz Past Copy Share Image
Generally as a rule I am not. Unless I am super in love with a particular author, because I just want to… — Steve Toltz Amazing book Copy Share Image
