“Maine is not a death cult. I mean, it is, but it's a slow one. It creeps in like the tide, and… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
The understanding that we reach a point where we stop becoming something and start ending as something. That comes at different times… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
“I wish she were alive, but I am grateful for her death. If she were alive, I would likely still be working… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
There is no metaphor for death. All comparisons are odious, but I'll do one anyway. We all have these moments of harsh… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
When you're a young person, you are biologically driven to believe you are immortal, and that's why you engage in all kinds… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
I don't care if I tell that story and John Roderick gets up afterward and yells, 'I hope you enjoyed the white… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
I think that obviously, there is a perverse attraction to a fundamentally changed world or the end of the world. There is… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
“She taught me that the world would continue without me. And eventually I learned that lesson. It took some time...Everything is cliche.… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
When you think about it, the end of the world is a little bit like death: We all know it's going to… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
“At some point I asked her if she was at peace with the idea of dying. She looked at me like I… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
Life may be miraculous in its unlikelihood in the universe, but it would be a fallacy to suggest that its rareness makes it inextinguishable. — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
I navigated the world as a hedge maze of constant fear and worry in which I might take the wrong turn and jeopardize the… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
“There are transitions in life whether we want them or not. You get older. You lose jobs and loves and people. The story of… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald meet in hell and team up to assassinate Satan. — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
I think in American culture, we put value on economic success but tell people you don't have to be economically successful to be happy. — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
If you look in the dictionary under 'perfectionist,' you see Henry Selick correcting the definition of perfectionist in the dictionary. I mean, he is… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
Lies are just another kind of storytelling, but with the very distinct and enlivening motive of desperation. Since writers are by nature desperate creatures,… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
I've made my evolutionary purpose and had children. I don't care if anybody likes me, I'm going to do what I want to do.… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
“When you live in New York or any big city, it is easy to fail at growing up. The city is designed to keep… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
You wouldn't want to live a life in which you are loved or approved by all people on Earth or even within your own… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
Well, I always had this desire to celebrate and somehow be a part of things that I thought were really great. — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
