I would say aside from Moxie soda bottles and Masonic artifacts, there's nothing I really collect.

I don't care if I tell that story and John Roderick gets up afterward and yells, 'I hope you enjoyed the white privilege, mortality comedy of John Hodgman!' That's me!" I'm going to play a sad Handsome Family song at the end and I guarantee you everyone is going to love it because, sometimes, you need a grown man or woman to tell you what you like.

Americans don't need a metaphor for war. We have war. If anything, we use war as a metaphor for sports.

Why certain political classes want purposefully to keep Americans in a state of perpetual debt and uncertainty and why certain people don't want a middle class - because middle class creates a certain happiness. You know what I mean?

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.

Well, I always had this desire to celebrate and somehow be a part of things that I thought were really great.

When you're sitting down and you're blocked and you just start writing and something in your mind just clicks, you start seeing connections and so on, you really do feel like you're channeling something else.