And as things fell apart, nobody paid much attention

Yes. Yes I am. I am a completely demented misogynist.

I went to college in Vermont, and then stayed in the East Coast.

No one will ever know anyone. We just have to deal with each other. You're not ever gonna know me.

I'm not a big believer in disciplined writers. What does discipline mean? The writer who forces himself to sit down and write for seven hours every day might be wasting those seven hours if he's not in the mood and doesn't feel the juice. I don't think discipline equals creativity.

With "Taipei" Tao Lin becomes the most interesting prose stylist of his generation...

I had all the characteristics of a human being—flesh, blood, skin, hair—but my depersonalization was so intense, had gone so deep, that my normal ability to feel compassion had been eradicated, the victim of a slow, purposeful erasure. I was simply imitating reality, a rough resemblance of a human being, with only a dim corner of my mind functioning