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.

Specificity is the soul of narrative.

You are only pretentious if you are not sincere.

I have learned that newborn infants roll their eyes around and move their heads and their arms in short jerky spasms. And if you homeschool them, they will stay this way forever.

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.

I believe that the federal government should be laying down broadband like Eisenhower laid down interstates.

I say, if you're going to eat a creature alive, you have to expect some screaming. That is the carnivore's burden.