Tosches Quotes

#1. An extraordinary writer ... It is the vastness of Nick Tosches' heart that makes it possible to reveal the darkness.

Hubert Selby Jr.

#2. You don't know what people are really like until they're under a lot of stress.

Tim Allen

#3. I often wonder if I had the complete freedom to not have to write, if I would write. That's the one mystery that I hope I get to experience.

Nick Tosches

#4. Joe Bonomo has written a fine book: a book not only about a band or times passed, but also about the rare virtue of endurance.

Nick Tosches

#5. There's some of Romeo's romance in me ... I romanticise a lot of things in my mind..

Leonardo DiCaprio

#6. I wanted to be alone, not forgotten.

Nick Tosches

#7. For violence, like Achilles' lance, can heal the wounds it has inflicted.

Frantz Fanon

#8. As a young man, I felt a need to communicate with somebody or something, but it seemed in my own particular environment that that wasn't an option. On the other hand, I probably lacked the courage to do so, even if it was an option.

Nick Tosches

#9. Everyone is from someplace. We all have stories, our lives unfolding along crooked lines, colliding in unexpected ways.

Noah Hawley

#10. I don't have a college degree.

Nick Tosches

#11. The things I wanted to be when I was a kid were an archeologist, because of dinosaur bones; a garbage man, because they got to ride on the side of the trucks; and a writer.

Nick Tosches

#12. Johnny Depp is, to me, a rare kindred spirit with like sensibilities, who has escaped the beast. He's probably one of the few people that have survived Los Angeles as a human being.

Nick Tosches

#13. The older you get, the more you live with ghosts.

Nick Tosches

#14. We need new friends; some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up; others must have ever-renewed audiences before whom to re-enact the ideal version of their lives.

Logan Pearsall Smith

#15. I've also worked hard portraying an Ireland which is fast disappearing. Ireland was a very depressed and difficult place in the 1980s, and I've tried to include that in the script. I worked really hard to find the heart of the book.

Neil Jordan

#16. For years, I never really pondered how I came to be a writer from where I came from.

Nick Tosches

#17. When I was young, I kept trying to read 'Moby-Dick', and I couldn't get that far into it. And I kept thinking, 'Well, man, if I can't read the great American novel, I could never be a writer.' And this bothered me a great deal.

Nick Tosches

#18. I go for long walks in Newlands Forest in Cape Town, and I go to the Turkish baths on Sunday mornings.

Damon Galgut

#19. One does not hate as long as one has a low esteem of someone, but only when one esteems him as an equal or a superior.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#20. Life is a racket. Writing is a racket. Sincerity is a racket. Everything's a racket.

Nick Tosches

#21. Mortality applies to every aspect of life. The fear of death is the driving fear of life.

Nick Tosches

#22. To me, music's something I can dance to or listen to. To write about it is always more of what the music represents, or what it reflects. Like an ideal song, to me, is a song that you can dance to, that summons up some darker and greater mystery.

Nick Tosches

#23. You can go as far as your mind lets you.

Mary Kay Ash

#24. It is always easier to see in another what we are uncomfortable with in ourselves.

Nick Tosches

#25. I think Elvis Presley will never be solved

Nick Tosches

#26. You see, I needed to go to Hell.

Nick Tosches

#27. Exceptional men do not hold their experiences to be out of the ordinary or of interest to anyone else. Unlike the trodden fungus-men, they are not so ignorantly and presumptuously self-absorbed. They are nobody and they know it. They shun notice. They are exceedingly rare.

Nick Tosches