Technology: I'll tell you, if I was born a couple of generations later, I think I would have been a computer programmer. Because I've always been mathematically inclined, and I love what they do. I think Word is one of the great inventions of mankind. I'm absolutely astonished with that program. Why Most Books Bore Him: I took every move! course at Williams College-which is where I went-on American novels, and European novels, and curiously enough, none of them really made me want to read another one. Except I took a six-seek course on Ulysses, and I thought, "Oah, well, this is different. This is different!" It's weird, because obviously I'm really interested in language, and I love style, and I love all of that. But what happens-and it's unfair-is, if in the second paragraph of a book I think a sentence is out of style, I think, "Oh, f%^ this.
" Facebook: At my age, what I don't want to do is meet anybody else. I don't want to communicate with strangers, I don't want friends, I don't want to friend anybody or be friended by anyone. But if I were fifty years younger, it would be another matter. Never Repeating Himself: I just don't want to fall into that trap of writing something that doesn't come from what I want to write but what I think I ought to write. And that's the lesson any creative artist has to learn. Write what you want to write. Don't write what you think people want you to write, but what you want to write. Why Live Theater will Never be Replaced: The joy of the theater is that from generation to generation, from year to year, the production is alive, because it can be done differently.
Even night to night, as well as know. It's not the same show tonight as it was last night. And that's so much better than writing for the movies, where it's there, and that may be perfect, but that's permanent. The fun is allowing people to reinterpret. The Pop Music he can Stand: The Beatles are exceptional because they were so original and startling, but when I listened to others of their contemporaries I just wasn't as interested. And very little pop music is harmonically interesting-one of the exceptions being Radiohead. Book jacket.