The few people who ask to have their photographs with me, I almost always say yes, except for a few circumstances, like when my family is around.

As a freelance writer, I'd be asked to become an expert for various magazines on any subject, whether food or wine or history or the life span of veterinarians. I was completely unschooled in any of these things.

Terry Gross has never had me on her show and you know, it's her show; she sets the agenda and that's not Hodgman. But I'll still listen to it.

To want to become the President is, I think, such a bizarre ambition that it is automatically deranging.

My candidacy is a compelling argument for my candidacy. I want to be President.

I don't wish to brag, but I'm very intelligent.

That which is hard to do is best done bitterly.