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.

It seems that every generation needs its public, tweedy, literary personality to sell its consumer electronics. To whatever degree I can live up to the Plimptonian legacy, I am humble and proud.

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 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.

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.

This is one of the defining sorrows of books: that we cannot see one another.

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