Greed is good. Sex is easy. Youth is forever.

I totally relate to Tom Cruise. He's not crazy, it's just the litany of the mid-life crisis.

You really write the books you want to write. You can't take into consideration anything that anybody has said about you in the past, or what they'll say about you in the future.

... her taste in music haunted my memory and I had to stop at Tower Records on the Upper West Side to buy ninety dollars' worth of rap CDs but, as expected, I'm at a loss: [...] voices uttering ugly words like digit, pudding, chunk.

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

What else is there to do in college except drink beer or slit one's wrists?

I don't want to care. If I care about things, it'll just be worse, it'll just be another thing to worry about. It's less painful if I don't care.