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Adjust my dreams for me.
Price. You're priceless.
People are afraid to merge.
Rock 'n' roll. Deal with it.
All of my books come from pain.
We buy balloons, we let them go.
I have to return some videotapes
No one ever likes the right person.
I am gripped by an existential panic.
The better you look, the more you see.
I don't know why I write what I write.
Disintegration---I'm taking it in stride.
I do not feel I have a legacy to protect.
I think we've all lost some kind of feeling.
I think basically most men are misogynistic.
Greed is good. Sex is easy. Youth is forever.
Fear never shows up and the party ends early.
After a while you learn that everything stops.
I wasn't acting on passion. I was simply acting.
...if you're alone nothing bad can happen to you.
You learn to move on without the people you love.
When the going gets tough, the tough go drinking.
And as things fell apart, nobody paid much attention
Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?
Yes. Yes I am. I am a completely demented misogynist.
I've been accused of being very vain about my apathy.
I'm into, oh murders and executions mostly. It depends.
I like to dissect girls. Did you know I'm utterly insane?
I have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general.
Women aren't very bright," Rip says. "Studies have been done.
Look how black the sky is, the writer said. I made it that way.
No one is drawn to writing about being happy or feelings of joy.
I went to college in Vermont, and then stayed in the East Coast.
My pain is constant and sharp...this confession has meant nothing
I feel like I'm not smart enough to answer the questions I'm asked.
I needed something--the distraction of another life--to alleviate fear.
The Smiths are singing and someone says "Turn that gay angst music off.
Not being able to find meaning can be just as powerful as finding meaning.
People can get accustomed to anything, right? Habit does things to people.
What else is there to do in college except drink beer or slit one's wrists?
It's the rare book that's able to transport you in a way that a movie does.
I've forgotten who I had lunch with earlier, and even more important, where.
My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone.
I could stay living in this city if they just installed Blaupunkts in the cabs.
The seeds of love have taken hold and if we won't burn together, I'll burn alone.
I think a lot of snowflakes are alike...and I think a lot of people are alike too.
I feel I'm moving toward as well as away from something, and anything is possible.
History is sinking and only a very few seem dimly aware that things are getting bad.
With "Taipei" Tao Lin becomes the most interesting prose stylist of his generation...
I write books to relieve myself of pain. That's the prime motivator to write. Period.