Don't be afraid to have nothing.

- Steve Toltz

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?" b…

- 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

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

- Steve Toltz

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

- Steve Toltz

There are men put on this earth to make laws designed to break the spirits of men. There are those put here to have their spirits broken by those put…

- Steve Toltz

The game is an analogy for life: there are not enough chairs or good times to go around, not enough food, not enough joy, nor beds nor jobs nor laugh…

- Steve Toltz

There’s nothing wonderful or interesting about unrequited love. I think it’s shitty, just plain shitty. To love someone who doesn’t return your affec…

- Steve Toltz

Sometimes not talking is effortless, and other times it’s more exhausting than lifting pianos.

- Steve Toltz