Norman Mailer described the desire to be cool as a "decision to encourage the psychopath in oneself, to explore that domain of experience where security is boredom and therefore sickness and one exists in the present, in that enormous present which is without past or future, memory or planned intention.

Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook (ed. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2010) - ISBN: 9781408809174