We buy balloons, we let them go.

I kept staring into the blackness of the woods, drawn into the darkness as I always had been. I suddenly realized how alone I was. (But this is how you travel, the wind whispered back, this is how you've always lived.)

People are afraid to merge.

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

You do not write a novel for praise, or thinking of your audience. You write for yourself; you work out between you and your pen the things that intrigue you

And as things fell apart, nobody paid much attention

I like to dissect girls. Did you know I'm utterly insane?