If you come at movies with your own sense of morality and not your own sense of aesthetics, I think you're screwed. I think that's not a way to look at movies.

Our lives are not all interconnected. That theory is a crock. Some people truly do not need to be here.

It's because you're always fighting sentiment. You're fighting sentimentality all of the time because being a mother alerts you in such a primal way.

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've been accused of being very vain about my apathy.

The seeds of love have taken hold and if we won't burn together, I'll burn alone.