I am a marginally employed person who can escape with my school teacher wife to the waters of Maine for much of the summer.

People like what they like. They're gonna do what they're gonna do.

A stopped clock is correct twice a day, but a sundial can be used to stab someone, even at nighttime.

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.

When I listen to music - I don't particularly do it for fun all that much. It's not a big part of my life, and I'm not really on top of what's happening in the world of music in the way I was when I was a teenager.

Part of the transaction between writer and reader is the pleasure of building a community and encouraging people to play along.

One of the things about crowd work that's so exciting is when you discover a character in the audience who's interesting or funny, who you can vibe off of. If someone's got a weird job that you can make reference to throughout, or you can bring that person onstage - humiliate them, or celebrate them! You can put people in conversation with one another. The best is when something that they're doing can reflect back on something that you're doing.