“It is remarkable how quickly extraordinary things turn ordinary.” — Nathan Hill Extraordinary Copy Share Image
“He’s looking for people he can be himself around. Aren’t we all?” — Nathan Hill Looking Copy Share Image
“There are some mysteries of the universe that ought to remain mysteries.” — Nathan Hill Mysteries Copy Share Image
“He’s like the most dangerous species of American there is: heterosexual white male who didn’t get what he wanted.” — Nathan Hill Heterosexual Copy Share Image
“The things we love the most are the most disfiguring. Such is our greed for them.” — Nathan Hill Greed Copy Share Image
“But such was the way with people – they loved the things that made them miserable.” — Nathan Hill Miserable Copy Share Image
“The farther from shore you take it, the heavier it becomes, until one day it gets too heavy to bear.” — Nathan Hill Heavier Copy Share Image
“There is not one true self hidden by many false ones. Rather, there is one true self hidden by many other true… — Nathan Hill Identity Copy Share Image
“he functionally remembered the desire to quit Elfscape, but there was no part of his brain actively telling him to do so,… — Nathan Hill Mind Copy Share Image
“such was the way with people—they loved the things that made them miserable. She” — Nathan Hill Miserable Copy Share Image
“they treat it like a lab rat or a poem—break it apart, dissect it, explain it, expose the viscera. They think the… — Nathan Hill Syllable Copy Share Image
“In America, the government is accountable to the people, not the other way around,” says a constitutional law scholar sympathetic to the… — Nathan Hill Constitutional law Copy Share Image
“Everyone loves a prodigy [...]. Prodigies get us off the hook for living ordinary lives. We can tell ourselves we're not special… — Nathan Hill Life Copy Share Image
“the problem with the blind men and the elephant. It wasn’t that they were blind—it’s that they stopped too quickly, and so… — Nathan Hill Truth Copy Share Image
“People love each other for many reasons, not all of them good,” she said. “They love each other because it’s easy. Or… — Nathan Hill Love Copy Share Image
“The nurses in Willow Glen didn’t try to prevent death. But they did try to guide you to die in the right… — Nathan Hill Death Copy Share Image
“Because one thing she’s learned through all this is that if a new beginning is really new, it will feel like a… — Nathan Hill Change Copy Share Image
“You never even decided your life would be this way—it’s simply the way life has become. You’ve been carved out by the… — Nathan Hill Canyon Copy Share Image
“So he put on the fanciest things in his closet: a stiff and itchy white shirt; a black necktie bound noose-tight; black… — Nathan Hill Closet Copy Share Image
“Whereas if you choose to see people as puzzles, and if you see yourself as a puzzle, then you will be constantly… — Nathan Hill Dig deep Copy Share Image
“If only the real world operated like Elfscape,” Pwnage said, chewing. “If only marriages worked that way. Like every time I did… — Nathan Hill Marriage Copy Share Image
“I saw the northern lights once. In upper Alberta. I booked a trip with this outfit called See the Northern Lights! I… — Nathan Hill Expectations Copy Share Image
“Because if you see people as enemies or obstacles or traps, you will be at constant war with them and with yourself.… — Nathan Hill Dig deep Copy Share Image
“Empathy. Most people think empathy is like understanding someone else or relating to them. But it's more than that. Real empathy is… — Nathan Hill Children Copy Share Image
“In the story of the blind men and the elephant, what’s usually ignored is the fact that each man’s description was correct.… — Nathan Hill Blind Copy Share Image
“The protestors and the police, the progressives and the authoritarians—they require each other, they create each other, because they need an opponent… — Nathan Hill Group Hate Copy Share Image
“Would this make sense to the TV audience? That a thing like a protest expands and draws everything into it. He wants… — Nathan Hill Television Copy Share Image
“In the story of the blind men and the elephant, what’s usually ignored is the fact that each man’s description was correct.… — Nathan Hill Blind Copy Share Image
“also severely degenerated the tissue of his rostral anterior cingulate cortex, an area in the front of the brain that acts as… — Nathan Hill Christmas lights Copy Share Image
“You know, there used to be a difference between authentic music and sellout music. I'm talking about when I was young, in… — Nathan Hill Art Copy Share Image
“They turned on the television and saw some news story about another goddamn humanitarian crisis, another goddamn civil war in some godforsaken… — Nathan Hill Children Copy Share Image
“And do you want to marry him?" "Maybe. I don't know." "That kind of indifference usually means no." "It's not indifference. I… — Nathan Hill Choice Copy Share Image
Fear is like a long hallway , long, dark, narrow, and never ending. — Nathan Hill Fear Copy Share Image