All STEVE TOLTZ Quotes about “Children”

“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?" but when you're an adult and to be different is suddenly a crime, people seem to be saying, "Hey. Everyone else is jumping off a bridge. Why aren't you?”

“Letâ€™s not mince words: the inside of the Sydney casino looks as if Vegas had an illegitimate child with Liberaceâ€™s underpants, and that child fell down a staircase and hit its head on the edge of a spade.”
“To have a child is to be impaled daily on the spike of responsibility.”
“The universe doesn't really care if you bounce back. It doesn't feel that weird to write about paralysis or being in hospital or losing a child or, you know, splitting up with your wife, because that's just life.”

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