Nick Tosches Quotes


You got guys that are so old, you see them eating lunch, the drool's just coming from their mouth, and they're sending around memos about 10 percent crosscuts. If I had one tenth of their money, I would be free. They don't know what freedom is. It's a disease. You're one of the rare people that is given freedom, and what do you do with it? You don't live. You choose to be dead in life. Money buys freedom. I mean why is this guy with the slobber worried about taking food off other people's tables? His $19 billion won't get him from where he is to the grave comfortably? That to me is a disease.


Citations

Tosches, Nick. "What I've Learned." Esquire, Hearst Communications, 2012.

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  • Born: October 23, 1949
  • Died: October 20, 2019
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Biographer, Essayist, Journalist, Novelist, Poet

Nicholas P. Tosches was an American journalist, novelist, biographer, and poet. His 1982 biography of Jerry Lee Lewis, Hellfire, was praised by Rolling Stone magazine as "the best rock and roll biography ever written."