Here Goes Nothing

by Steve Toltz

I said I also believed that life was meaningless but not worthless, and how that distinction had been enough to get me out of bed in the morning. I believed that gullibility was akin to a disability and should be treated accordingly. And that if everything happens for a reason, those reasons are chance, luck and chaos.

‘I was frightened of too many things, none of which killed me.’

‘Self-actualising on social media is the new flossing in public.’

It’s uncanny how human beings never miss a chance to miss the point.

He gave you minds to think about the manifestation of the invisible, and He’s been blown away by how you worried about your body-mass index.

We are not puppets but we are so predictable we might as well be.

This was going to be a hard era for tactile people, she thought, on her way out.