116 Quotes by Steve Toltz

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

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

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, would you?" but when you're an adult and to be different is suddenly a crime, people seem to be saying, "Hey. Everyone else is jumping off a bridge. Why aren't you?

With medical science improving at roughly the same rate as our environmental situation worsens, the most likely scenario is that the world will become uninhabitable at the precise moment the human race becomes immortal.

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

We just didn't get it. We were weakened and exhilarated at the same time. A paranoiac's nightmare! A narcissist's dream! We didn't know how to feel: flattered or raped. Maybe both. We were puzzling at breakneck speed.

Amen' is like the Send button on an email.

When we finished the kiss she said laughing, I can taste your loneliness - it tastes like vinegar. That annoyed me. Everyone knows loneliness tastes like cold potato soup.

If I have made one unpardonable error in my life, it’s to deny, all the time, that there are people who might genuinely love me.