"Give me the outside of all things, I am a fanatic for the externality of things."

-- Jose Lezama Lima

“I actually own a copy of my own book; that's how dedicated I am as an author.”

Source : "John Hodgman, part one: the global superpocalypse". Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. November 8, 2011.
“Progression and achievement belong to those who have learned to use the opportunity of now. Our strides of today will determine our locations tomorrow.”
“Fame is an unnatural construct and those who go in search of it are the least likely to find it.”
“We live in a world so utterly infused with digitality that it makes even the slightest action ripple across the collection of data bases we call the web.”
“While the distance between the United States and Iraq is great, Saddam Hussein's ability to use his chemical and biological weapons against us is not constrained by geography - it can be accomplished in a number of different ways - which is what makes this threat so real and persuasive.”
“There's only one thing harder than living in a home with an adolescent - and that's being an adolescent. The moodiness, the volatility, the wholesale lack of impulse control, all would be close to clinical conditions if they occurred at another point in life. In adolescence, they're just part of the behavioral portfolio.”
“Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.”
“A man can only rise, conquer, and achieve by lifting up his thoughts.”

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