Steve Toltz Quotes

Gossip. The more you talk about why people do things, the more ideas you have about how the world works.

Life would be boring without gossip.

Many species reciprocate, but only humans gossip, and much of what we gossip about is the vale of other people as partners for reciprocal relationships.

Gossip is conversation about people.

It's human nature to want to be with other people.

Gossip is more popular than literature.

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

Gossip, unlike river water, flows both ways.

gossip is just the small change of conversation.

There are male as well as female gossips.

Another good thing about gossip is that it is within everybody's reach, And it is much more interesting than any other form of speech.

Content isn't king. If I sent you to a desert island and gave you the choice of taking your friends or your movies, you'd choose your friends -- if you chose the movies, we'd call you a sociopath. Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.

I've never been interested in things that sparkle and shine; I'm more interested in people.

How can one know anything at all about people?

When people talk, they lay lines on each other, do a lot of role playing, sidestep, shilly-shally and engage in all manner of vagueness and innuendo. We do this and expect others to do it, yet at the same time we profess to long for the plain truth, for people to say what they mean, simple as that. Such hypocrisy is a human universal.

Human beings are social animals; we devote a significant portion of our brain just to dealing with interactions with other humans.

I'm curious about people. That's what I've always done since I've been a small boy. I'm curious about others.

I have found that most of the things I want from living I must get from people.

I love, I love human beings, studying them.

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.

Gossip is essentially storytelling: storytelling about people whom we know.

Life would certainly be easier if we all came equipped with our own personal FAQ lists. When we meet someone, we could pass them a business card with the list on the back, and then step back and let them read before we tried to talk.

You come to know the aches and vanities and tastes and intrigues of an entire neighborhood at a drug store.

The reason I act is because I'm trying to understand why people are as they are.