David Berman Interview

If you were cool in high school
you didn’t ask too many questions.
You could tell who’d been to last night’s big metal concert by the new
t-shirts in the hallways.
You didn’t have to ask and that’s what cool was:
the ability to deduce,
to know without asking.
And the pressure to simulate coolness
means not asking when you don’t know,
which is why kids grow ever more stupid”