Tao Lin Quotes

I've never had friends, and I don't like to be around big groups of people.

I don't live with earplugs. I don't like the spotlight - but I like overhearing conversations.

I'm kind of a recluse when it comes to going outside.

I'm more the sort of person who doesn't like hugging strangers because we don't know each other, so we shouldn't.

When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so.

I'm not a hugely social person. Obviously there's a big part of the job that requires that as actors, but it's not the most comfortable for me. I'm a homebody. I don't go out. My life is work and family. There's not a lot in between. That's how I like it.

I don't mind having people over, but it's weird how much more withdrawn I've become than being social in public places, I guess.

I like big crowds. I find it easier to focus.

I prefer to stay in if I have a choice. I lose energy being around people. I know that sounds horrible.

I am not a very social person and have a few friends who have been with me since school and college. I hate going to parties and events and would rather sit at home and watch TV. Parties are the place where controversies happen.

I wanted to get through high school anonymously.

Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.

I find parties difficult. I like a dinner party, but I find being at parties difficult, so I choose not to go to parties.

I thought talking to human beings was just something that could make things complicated and unpleasant. So I didn't talk much. I just watched people.

I feel alone and safe in public.

It's about trying to step out of being patterned and closed off and reclusive, which I've always had a problem with. It's about attempting to be normal and just go out and be around other people and hang out. I have a tendency to sometimes be pretty closed off and not see people for long periods of time and not call anyone.

I did not love going out to parties or even get-togethers, really - I went to the movies, which, if you think about it, is an isolating experience anyway - and this was because I had anxiety about interacting with people.

I think I am very anti-social.

Every place I go, Im recognied, and its pretty hard to just sit by yourself.

I do not interact much with people whom I don't know.

I have a somewhat reclusive quality myself, and actually what's great about New York is that it pushes you to be social because the streets are full of people.

Sometimes I go totally anti-social.

I love people; don't get me wrong. Individually, I love that interaction between people, and I'm not an ogre or something; but huge crowds of people, huge groups of people who seemingly have endless access to you - as I get older, I'm not really into that.

I think that there's part of me that feels like maybe I should have been more social.

One day I shall write a little book of conduct myself, and I shall call it Social Problems of the Unsociable. And the root problem, beneath a hundred varying manifestions, is How to Escape. How to escape, that is, at those times, be they few or frequent, when you want to keep yourself to yourself.