Everything we make in life, eventually, is sold for a dollar or a penny or given away. — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
“This is a book about me, at what I hope is the beginning of the second half of my life and not… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
When I listen to music - I don't particularly do it for fun all that much. It's not a big part of… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
“What more is there to say than it was traumatic, a moment that breaks your life in half? That you never heal… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
While I understand that all things must come to an end, whether it's a television advertisement or one's life or the world… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
Even in my own life, there are memories I have that are difficult to explain - happenings that are so odd and… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
Panic is an incredibly catalyzing creative force. And almost out of sheer necessity, I found I had to talk about myself and… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
By the time I was writing the second book, my life had changed rather dramatically, thanks to the intervention of television, and… — 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… — 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… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
In a mad moment, my family and I purchased a home in Maine because it's the place in the world that my… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
I think that I'm reaching a point in my life and in my career where soon it will be important for me… — 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… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
As a freelance writer, I'd be asked to become an expert for various magazines on any subject, whether food or wine or… — 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
Stories hold power because they convey the illusion that life has purpose and direction. Where God is absent from the lives of… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
This is not to say there are not Chicagoans. But I would suggest that they are a nomadic people, whose lost home… — 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
