Steve Toltz (born 1972 in Sydney) is an Australian novelist. (wikipedia)
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,
Sometimes they [people] throw off their freedom so quickly, you'd think it was burning them.
Friendships are an unforseeable burden.
The moment seemed endless, but it was probably only half that.
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.
After all, memory may be the only thing on earth we can truly manipulate to serve us, so we don't have to look back at ourselves in the receding past and think, What an arsehole!
Regrets came up and asked me if I’d like to own them. Declined them for the most part but took a few just so I wouldn’t leave this relationship empty handed.
Raymond Chandler I love a lot, and the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard. I really love his voice.
