...I wondered if it was blasphemous to tell God that rainbows are kitsch. — Steve Toltz Blasphemous Copy Share Image
To have a child is to be impaled daily on the spike of responsibility. — Steve Toltz Children Copy Share Image
If I knew a story page by page before I started writing it, I just wouldn't do it. The process of discovery… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
“A city is a strange place for dawn. The sun just can't seem to make any headway in the cold streets” — Steve Toltz Dawn Copy Share Image
I think that's the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the boundaries that will limit your potential. — Steve Toltz Boundaries 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
“The futility of the attempt was obvious; when you put in that much effort to forget someone, the effort itself becomes a… — Steve Toltz Memory Copy Share Image
“Why groups never follow the sweet, gentle child is obvious, but I wish it would happen just once.” — Steve Toltz Child Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think the human animal doesn't really need food or water to survive, only gossip. — Steve Toltz Animal Copy Share Image
People carry their secrets in hidden places, not on their faces. They carry suffering on their faces. Also bitterness if there’s room. — Steve Toltz Anger Copy Share Image
I have that sort of Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry David/George Costanza thing where people are like, "How did you feel writing such… — Steve Toltz Character Copy Share Image
Or about how when you're a child, to stop you from following the crowd you're assaulted with the line "If everyone jumped… — Steve Toltz Adults Copy Share Image
I think as you get older, there are things that there's just no light side to, but you know, I guess the… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
He pointed the gun at me. Then he looked up at my hand & tilted his head slightly. - Journey, he said.… — Steve Toltz Book Copy Share Image
After all, memory may be the only thing on earth we can truly manipulate to serve us, so we don't have to… — Steve Toltz Arseholes 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
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 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
“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
“If there is a God, I doubt he is such a hard-liner. Rather, I imagine him greeting the men and women who… — Steve Toltz God 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
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
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 Copy Share Image
I try to outline. I'm a lazy outliner. I will put the points down of each chapter or series of chapters, but… — Steve Toltz Character 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
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
When people come up to me and say, 'I read your book,' I'm thinking, 'How dare you! Who gave you a copy?' — Steve Toltz Book Copy Share Image
“It made no sense to me that people would hate the very thing they aspired to become.” — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
I made some probably very cringe-worthy short films that shall hopefully never make the light of day. — Steve Toltz Cinema 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
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
“As I left my cab in the traffic jam, the driver made it clear he didn't like it that I was ending… — Steve Toltz Ending relationship Copy Share Image
“The world's not falling apart imperceptibly anymore, these days it makes a loud shredding noise!” — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
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