Quotes from Tao Lin

Everyone should be impeached," Ellen said. "For being so bad at living.

Maybe we should wait until after Thanksgiving for the dog. Thanksgiving is so soon! Aren't you excited?" "I hate all holidays.

I don't have specific music for when I'm writing. I'm usually listening to the same playlist or 'artist' before I arrive at the computer as when I'm walking somewhere after leaving the computer.

I don't view my memory as accurate or static - and, in autobiographical fiction, my focus is still on creating an effect, not on documenting reality - so 'autobiographical,' to me, is closer in meaning to 'fiction' than 'autobiography.'

I'm not being secretive about anything. I just actually don't have opinions about society.

I can discern that certain things have an effect on certain other things, but I don't view those effects as good or bad. If a context and a goal is defined, I could say if it's good or bad. But overall, I don't view things as good or bad.

A lot of people think I'm a vegan. I'm not.

I like most any place if I have Internet access.

Do you sometimes look up from the computer and look around the room and know you are alone, I mean really know it, then feel scared ?

If I don't like someone and I start reading their stuff, it seems like my brain will just automatically start criticizing everything that's there. It's really hard to read a book without having all this outside information telling you what to think about it.

Matt would stare at Andrew for 10 minutes. It's depressing that people are different. Everyone should be one person, who should then kill itself in hand-to-hand combat.

does a society exist where it's become acceptable to wear 'helmets' enclosing one's entire head when in public to preempt social interaction

I just keep investing in the future, and I haven't reached the point where I'm not doing that.

One seemed simply to be here, less an accumulation of moments than a single arrangement continuously gifted from some inaccessible future.

It seems like for the last 10 years, I've just been investing in the future.