Best Steve Toltz Quotes
- Or about how when you're a child, to stop you from following the crowd you're assaulted with the line "If everyone jumped off a bridge,… Adult
- Losers blame their parents; Failures blame their kids. Blame
- 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 out… Bang
- We're always sick and we just don't know it. What we mean by health is only when our constant physical deterioration is undetectable. Always Sick
- To have a child is to be impaled daily on the spike of responsibility. Child
- Friendships are an unforseeable burden. Burden
- When we finished the kiss she said laughing, I can taste your loneliness - it tastes like vinegar. That annoyed me. Everyone knows loneliness tastes… Annoyed
- ...I wondered if it was blasphemous to tell God that rainbows are kitsch. Blasphemous
- ...I thought how I hate any kind of mob - I hate mobs of sports fans, mobs of environmental demonstrators, I even hate mobs of… Any
- You experience life alone, you can be as intimate with another as much as you like, but there has to be always a part of… Alone
- When you put so much effort to forget someone, the effort itself becomes a memory. Then you have to forget the forgetting, and that too… Becomes
- I've been labelled many times - a criminal, an anarchist, a rebel, sometimes human garbage, but never a philosopher, which is a pity because that's… Anarchist
- I actually went into writing first to supplement my income, which was a strange thing to do, and actually failed. Actually Failed
- Raymond Chandler I love a lot, and the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard. I really love his voice. Austrian
- There is something so arbitrary about prizes. Arbitrary
- I enjoy being influenced by other writers. Enjoy
- I made some probably very cringe-worthy short films that shall hopefully never make the light of day. Cringe
- She gave me a look that deftly combined tenderness with revulsion. To this day the memory of that look still visits me like a Jehovahs… Combined