To want to become the President is, I think, such a bizarre ambition that it is automatically deranging.
John HodgmanThe 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.
John HodgmanI still have a fondness for books. Many a time I will be antiquing, and I'll say, 'What's that old-timey curio over there? What is that, a candlestick telephone, one of those old pull-chain toilets? Oh no, it's a book. I used to help make those things! I will buy it and use it to decorate my chain of casual family-dining restaurants.
John Hodgman