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Don't touch me, you fat ghost! — Steve Toltz

I wondered if it was blasphemous to tell God that rainbows are kitsch. — Steve Toltz

A city is a strange place for dawn. The sun just can't seem to make any headway in the cold streets — Steve Toltz

If I knew a story page by page before I started writing it, I just wouldn't do it. The process of discovery is really important for my own enjoyment. — Steve Toltz

When it comes to taking your own life, preparation is procrastination. — Steve Toltz

Tell me, sonny, what do you think makes good army material?" the recruiting officer asked. "Light cotton? — Steve Toltz

Morrell turned his head upward as if to appraise the azure, featureless sky and nodded, apparently approving of God's use of negative space. — Steve Toltz

I haven't been part of the criminal world. — Steve Toltz

To my horror principles have wormed their way into [the] fabric of my being. — Steve Toltz

I don't have a great respect for reality or getting the 'facts' as a means of putting together a story. — Steve Toltz

Remembering the past is like watching a Hollywood movie, in that you never see the characters go to the toilet. — Steve Toltz

Why is free will wasted on a creature who has infinite choices but pretends there are only one or two? — Steve Toltz

To have a child is to be impaled daily on the spike of responsibility. — Steve Toltz

We were on our way to the twentieth floor, sharing the elevator with two suits that had men inside them. — Steve Toltz

It made no sense to me that people would hate the very thing they aspired to become. — Steve Toltz

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

I can't sit through dinner with somebody I don't like. — Steve Toltz

People are not mysterious because they never shut up! — Steve Toltz

The futility of the attempt was obvious; when you put in that much effort to forget someone, the effort itself becomes a memory. — Steve Toltz

existence is humiliation, anyway. — Steve Toltz

I think that's the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the boundaries that will limit your potential. — Steve Toltz

The moment seemed endless, but it was probably only half that. — Steve Toltz

As I left my cab in the traffic jam, the driver made it clear he didn't like it that I was ending our relationship so unexpectedly — Steve Toltz

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 is memorable. — Steve Toltz

It would annoy me to be killed by someone who doesn't especially hate me as an individual, or who I didn't personally betray. — Steve Toltz

Friendships are an unforseeable burden. — Steve Toltz

Come on, just say, "I do." It comes from the verb "to do." That's all you need for now. Then we'll move you on to "I did. — Steve Toltz

Feeling like the last sober man in a crazed nation that ran on booze. — Steve Toltz

Nuclear energy is a waste of time. They should go about harnessing the power of the unconscious when it is in the act of denying Death. — Steve Toltz

Raymond Chandler I love a lot, and the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard. I really love his voice. — Steve Toltz

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

Sometimes I think the human animal doesn't really need food or water to survive, only gossip. — Steve Toltz

I had begun to perceive my genitals as imaginary beasts in some epic fourteenth-century Scottish poem. — Steve Toltz

Sex: the match that sets off human firework. — Steve Toltz

We know what country this is: It's the stupid place where twenty-plus million people boast about being ordinary. — Steve Toltz

I actually went into writing first to supplement my income, which was a strange thing to do, and actually failed. — Steve Toltz

I made some probably very cringe-worthy short films that shall hopefully never make the light of day. — Steve Toltz

On day after class he asked me to wait behind. — Steve Toltz

There is something so arbitrary about prizes. — Steve Toltz

I enjoy being influenced by other writers. — Steve Toltz

The past is truly an inoperable tumour that spreads to the present. — Steve Toltz

I was so happy I wanted to fold all the people into paper airplanes and fly them into the lidless eye of that big yellow moon. — Steve Toltz

Losers blame their parents; Failures blame their kids. — Steve Toltz

Who wants the humiliation of being father to the human race? — Steve Toltz

I am influenced by books which don't have their eye on the endgame, but which try to be entertaining on each and every page. — Steve Toltz

Optimism isn't funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. It's exaggeration. — Steve Toltz

Amen' is like the Send button on an email. — Steve Toltz

The Buddhists are right. Guilty men are not sentenced to death, they are sentenced to life. — Steve Toltz

The world's not falling apart imperceptibly anymore, these days it makes a loud shredding noise! — Steve Toltz

Don't be afraid to have nothing. — Steve Toltz

There's nothing I would do again the same, and if given the opportunity, I would decline the opportunity. — Steve Toltz

People always say, 'Write what you know', but I've always found that to be terrible advice. It's quite limiting, what you know. — Steve Toltz

It's important to always take sides. Both sides, — Steve Toltz

We drank for another hour and I mutilated many of my most coherent thoughts by putting them into words. — Steve Toltz

There's freedom in looking crazy. — Steve Toltz

Sometimes they [people] throw off their freedom so quickly, you'd think it was burning them. — Steve Toltz

She always had the outward appearance of indifference, which I suspect is the real secret to longevity. That or a genuine desire to die. — Steve Toltz

It's rare to get so attached to another human being in adulthood. — Steve Toltz

I felt an attack of my most chronic illness - the pain of missing out. — Steve Toltz

A life strategy of minimizing regrets only winds up guaranteeing you suffer the maximum. — Steve Toltz

Love is hard work. — Steve Toltz

I groaned. Man and his codes! Even in a lawless inferno, man has to give himself some honor, he's so desperate to separate himself from the beasts. — Steve Toltz

I resisted a strong impulse to pluck out my eye and show it to them. — Steve Toltz

Sometimes not talking is effortless, and other times it's more exhausting than lifting pianos. — Steve Toltz

I didn't think anyone who had to demand respect ever got it. — Steve Toltz

There's only one common element that united every writer I've admired ... they're all incredibly well-read. — Steve Toltz

We were lazy people on an adventure, flirting with life but too shy to go all the way. — Steve Toltz

What a nasty act of cruelty, giving a dying man his last wish. Don't you realize he doesn't want it? His real wish is not to die. — Steve Toltz

I'm not sure if I always wanted to be a writer, but I was always writing. — Steve Toltz

I couldn't get my head around it. She'd lied to me! She had lied to me! Me! I was supposed to be the liar in this relationship! — Steve Toltz

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. — Steve Toltz