Tao Lin Quotes

Patriotism is the belief that not all human lives are worth the same.

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 ?

Sometimes an alien would stand with a moose, not because of solidarity, but because of accidentally doing it.

You were one person alive and your brain was encased in a skull. There were other people out there. It took effort to be connected.

note the similarities with buddhism a buddhist who has achieved nirvana is not sad primarily because it does not know the concept of sad [...]

Life, people learned, was not easy. Life was not cake. Life was not a carrot cake.

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

On average, since the urge to kill myself isn't so strong that I actually kill myself, the world is worth living in.

I don't know how to incorporate regret. But I'll say, like, "It affected me that way," "I learned this," "Next time maybe I'll do it differently".

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.

We have been sitting here all night bullshitting and we still don’t know what to do.

Life has never died, which is something that I think people ignore.

But there was nothing I could do with the emotion really. It just went away after a while.

I think Bret Easton Ellis has said that he doesn't completely identify with his characters. And I think he has referred to them as immoral before.

It seems like I'm not [happy]. Because if you look at my tweets and what I think and say, it seems like I'm worried about what's going to happen.

I know Bret Easton Ellis has said he has some amount of empathy for every character he has written about, though, so maybe I am similar to him in terms of that. I'm not sure what he thinks exactly.

I was delivering pizzas at Domino's. I was 17 maybe. I liked it a lot. Just driving in the nice weather and listening to music.

Moose had no friends that year. A lot of the time a moose would feel tired and lean against other moose. Only there wouldn't be moose there and the moose would fall.

When I'm talking to someone I think 'can I use this dialogue in a book,'" said Luis. "If the answer is no I try talking to someone else.

loneliness can fly a helicopter through a cut-out shape of a helicopter the same size as the helicopter and that's it's only skill and it isn't good enough but it's still amazing.

The correct arrangement of words will make these bad feelings go away tonight.

The distracting feeling of disbelief when you're finally doing something you've procrastinated on for notable amounts of time.

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

I can feel the universe expanding and making things be further apart.

I think I don't view myself as an author. I view myself as a person. I view anything as part of being a person, so I feel okay with "marketing" or other things like that.

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

I think mostly the commodifying comes after I've done something that has some other value to me.

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

I like reading books where people with a lot of money use it to do whatever they want. Like stay in expensive hotels and do whatever drugs they want and fly wherever they want.

I just don't feel good if I'm repeating myself.

I cried when my ex-girlfriend sent me a text message saying how much she liked my present to her.

Regarding drugs: just the existence of drugs seems troubling to me.

loneliness can fly a helicopter through a cut-out shapeof a helicopter the same size as the helicopterand that's it's only skilland it isn't good enoughbut it's still amazing.

I think it would be funny for people to read in obituaries of me that my major contribution to the arts was the popularization of the phrases 'neutral facial expression' and 'screaming in agony.'

Nice" said Paul staring transfixed at Fran's delicate and extreme gaze, like that of a skeleton with eyeballs, or a person with their face peeled off.

sad things are beautiful only from a distancetherefore you just want to get away from themfrom a distance of one hundred and thirty years ....i'm going to distance myself until the world is beautiful

I want to tie one thousand balloons around my neckand float upwhile slowly dying of happiness.