116 Quotes by Rick Moody

I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I’m trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century.

I’m not the guy to ask about the most up to date stuff.

I don’t know exactly how long the book as we know it will exist, but I fully expect to make it to my death without having to give up on books.

Tangled in one another’s arms and nine times out of ten the things you think about a person make it impossible to touch them.

I made this list of stuff that it’s time for me to try to do.

I had a talk with the president of my publisher, and he averred that e-books are dropping off. So I wonder if the potential advantages are really going to happen as quickly as they ought.

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.

The sounds of southwestern cacti are broadcast for several weeks until, by general assent, it is agreed that cacti make no sounds.

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.