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I'm not sure if that answers the question and I have absolutely no problem with any major world religion on Earth.
— John Hodgman
Maine's motto is "Vacationland," but as far as I'm concerned, it should be, "Maine: Putting the 'spite' in hospitality since 1820."
— John Hodgman
I am not beautiful, so I don't know why I'm making myself ugly. But the mustache stays.
— John Hodgman
I used to enjoy the anonymity of being a literary figure and occasionally a public radio figure.
— John Hodgman
Specificity is the soul of narrative.
— John Hodgman
I'm a personality - like a George Plimpton who effectively plays himself in a bunch of different roles, or a Paul Lynde-type character.
— John Hodgman
Only the nerds will save the earth.
— John Hodgman
Comedy does offer an avenue to television and film careers for untelegenic people that great drama does not.
— John Hodgman
Americans don't need a metaphor for war. We have war. If anything, we use war as a metaphor for sports.
— John Hodgman
I am a marginally employed person who can escape with my school teacher wife to the waters of Maine for much of the summer.
— John Hodgman
So much of creativity is the feeling that you're either getting a gift from some other dimension or some other part of yourself.
— John Hodgman
What would I put in a museum? Probably a museum! That's an amusing relic of our past.
— John Hodgman
I made an impulse buy of a house in Maine to make my wife happy and now have gone back into debt and it's all started over for me.
— John Hodgman
That which is hard to do is best done bitterly.
— John Hodgman
There's a tradition in American fiction that is deadly serious and earnest - like the Steinbeckian social novel.
— John Hodgman
My hope when I wrote the first book was that I would get to do it again. But it was not entirely clear that that would happen.
— John Hodgman
You are only pretentious if you are not sincere.
— John Hodgman
First of all, I wish I could grow a beard.
— John Hodgman
I say, if you're going to eat a creature alive, you have to expect some screaming. That is the carnivore's burden.
— John Hodgman
So I am a product of the Internet, and to some degree a product of this sensibility of constant cultural reference.
— John Hodgman
A stopped clock is correct twice a day, but a sundial can be used to stab someone, even at nighttime.
— John Hodgman
Generally speaking, I, like anyone else who does anything publicly, like it when people like what I do, and would like to hear as much.
— John Hodgman
As a live stand-up comedy performer, I have the benefit of choosing real entrance music.
— John Hodgman
A lot of media that that I want to consume, I don't want to have to own forever and ever. It's not like real estate.
— John Hodgman
Creating fake facts does require a measure of haphazard research, insofar as they need to not just be possible, but also interesting.
— John Hodgman
All I can ask from society is that it please stop telling me why I should like sports.
— John Hodgman
My memories of literary agenting are of a very happy time and there are surprising reminders of it coming back now.
— John Hodgman
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
John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald meet in hell and team up to assassinate Satan.
— John Hodgman
My fame is due to broadcast television.
— John Hodgman
I am not an Internet superstar.
— John Hodgman
Most people presume my mustache is not real because it's much darker than my regular hair.
— John Hodgman
Any time you try to create an Internet meme, automatic fail. That's like the worst thing you can do.
— John Hodgman
I would be good for maybe not the center square but an upper square on 'Hollywood Squares.'
— John Hodgman
Elwyn Brooks White was a very Maine personality which is, "I hate everyone and everyone stay away from me."
— John Hodgman
Well, I always had this desire to celebrate and somehow be a part of things that I thought were really great.
— John Hodgman
The fact is I'm very self-similar.
— John Hodgman
To want to become the President is, I think, such a bizarre ambition that it is automatically deranging.
— John Hodgman
I don't wish to brag, but I'm very intelligent.
— John Hodgman
I know nothing about letting go.
— John Hodgman
I think for the foreseeable future, the truth is going to be awful and funny all at the same time.
— John Hodgman
I suspect that when the truth ceases to be heartbreakingly funny, we will be in a better place and a happier society over all.
— John Hodgman
I have a lot of cultural references that have amassed in my brain like shrapnel over the years that are meaningful to me.
— John Hodgman
Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies.
— John Hodgman
Manly deeds, womanly hands.
— John Hodgman
Part of the transaction between writer and reader is the pleasure of building a community and encouraging people to play along.
— John Hodgman
