116 Quotes by Steve Toltz

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

I haven't been part of the criminal world,

Friendships are an unforseeable burden.

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.

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 of a supernova is a phenomenon so outrageous it makes my head twitch.

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

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

He pointed the gun at me. Then he looked up at my hand & tilted his head slightly. - Journey, he said. I had forgotten I was still holding the book. - Céline, I said back in a whisper. - I love that book. - I'm only halfway through. - Have you got to the point where -- - Hey, kill me, but don't tell me the end!

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.