Steve Toltz

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

I am influenced by books which don't have their eye on the endgame, but which try to be entertaining on each and every page.

I enjoy being influenced by other writers.

The birth of science rang the death-knell of an arbitrary and constantly interposing Supreme Power.

There is no doubt that, as a society, we have become blase about the importance of marriage as a stabilising influence and less inclined to prize it as a worthwhile institution.