116 Quotes by Steve Toltz

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 what I am. I chose a life apart from the common flow, not only because the common flow makes me sick but because I question the logic of the flow, and not only that - I don't know if the flow exists! Why should I chain myself to the wheel when the wheel itself might be a construct, an invention, a common dream to enslave us?

That’s what first love is all about. What happens is you meet a love object and immediately a hole inside you starts aching, the hole that is always there but you don’t notice until someone comes along, plugs it up, and then runs away with the plug.

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

Apparently they died from overfeeding. Apparently I overfed them. Apparently fish are terrible glutons with absolutely no self-control who just don't know when they've had enough and will stuff themselves to death with those innocuous little beige flakes imaginatively labeled 'fish food.

بیماری وضعیت طبیعی وجود ماست. ما همیشه مریض‌ایم و خودمان خبر نداریم. منظورمان از سلامتی دوره‌ای است که زوال پیوسته جسم‌مان برای‌مان قابل درک نیست.

اگه نمی‌تونی خارق‌العاده باشی، مبهم باش. اگه ندونن به چی می‌خوای برسی، هیچ‌وقت متوجه نمی‌شن در رسیدن بهش شکست خوردی

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

I think as you get older, there are things that there's just no light side to, but you know, I guess the more you empathise with people, the more empathy you have, the less you are able to see the lighter side.

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