I Don't Know Exactly How

Cool Is Spent. Cool Is Empty. Cool Is Ex Post Facto. When Advertisers And Pundits Hoard A Word, You Know It's Time To Retire From It. To Move On. I Want To Suggest, Therefore, That We Begin To Avoid Cool Now. Cool Is A Trick To Get You To Buy Garments Made By Sweatshop Laborers In Third World Countries. Cool Is The Triumph Of The Will. Cool Enables You To Step Over Bodies. Cool Enables You To Look The Other Way. Cool Makes You Functional, Eager For Routine Distraction, Passive, Doped, Stupid.

In General, Each Form Is A Relief From The Other Forms. I Can't Write A Novel After A Novel. I Just Use Up All The Material Each Time, And I Need To Rest.

I Read A Lot Of 'the Canterbury Tales' On My Phone Last Year, Because I Was Cycling Between Three Different Editions, And I Needed To Have A Middle-of-the-night Edition For The Insomniac Reading.

Genre Is A Bookstore Problem, Not A Literary Problem.

I Always Feel I Have Made Unfilmable Books. I Even Felt That Way About A Book Of Mine That Was Later Made Into A Movie. But My Wife, Who Has Made Two Films, Thinks This One Would Make A Very Original Film. I'm All For Original Films.